Reputation matters to these agents and if you get a rep as a guy who will take product and perform on contracts that can make you money down the road when he slides you deals first.

Usually the more money a transaction legitimately requires the more sophistication the parties to the transaction have.

All of our projects include anywhere from 4 to 12 regional construction banks approving the project who have audited all of our due diligence work product figures and perform their own independent value studies.

Even the least sophisticated observer of this place would have guessed that nearly 0% of the wood could be retained.

There are also community responsibility aspects that ensure you're allowed to stay in business.Next, understand too that RE, especially the internet, is full of promoters having motives to profit from mentoring, coaching, selling books, programs or other materials that are hyped in marketing products or services.

In general I think any time is a great time to buy if you have access to sufficient non-MLS deal flow and know how to evaluate opportunities for given product types in a given area.

I was scanning a blog I found here on BP when I noticed the following statement.Total private-market securitization this year: about $13 billion, roughly one week of GSE-based production.

This would assume that offering a collateralized debt product was their Plan A.

Finally banks do go broke on occasion or change policies on lending that limit their ability to help you at a crucial time.Please note that I am not nearly as sophisticated or knowledgeable as many members on this forum, and am only speaking as a person who gets loans not gives loans.

In general, I'm happy with my production in 2013 for the amount of effort that I put in.