I also email the picture to my partner so there is a timestamp of when the picture was taken in our gmail box.

Far fetched, poorly constructed agreemments are all over the place, left in the imagination of those promoting them.

This is actually how I found this thread, because I have "Brandon" set up as a keyword, so when your post was made - I was emailed an alert!

Hey Lamar Cannon I can imagine the Austin market performing nicely especially with UT continuously growing.

That said, I will *not* be claiming a charitable tax deduction on the donation, so I would imagine that it's 100% legal for you to take the deduction.Here's proof of the payment (email receipt from PayPal):http://imgur.com/fEUfnOG

(even though you may not have clients right at that moment for that specific property, your office does get those leads all the time, so it's not dishonest) If you talk to someone in the office, try to get an email address, and start a database, then you can send out a marketing email once a month with info specific to that market (apartments or ?)

Also with viewing property, taking pictures and emailing them to me.

60-75% of market value minus repairs is not a deal to them by any stretch of the imagination unless you're adding some kind of other value to the equation for them.The value you're adding may just be getting them out of a house payment...but if they have high equity, it's not their only property, and they have only owned the property for 7 years it's unlikely they're really hurting for money.

I have been bombarding FNMA with calls and emails and I'm not getting any responses.

The annual filings are in .pdf along with the articles and original filing.There is a phone number, e-mail address, company name, name of a person with address etc.