The mistake is that this company most likely hired a writer to write blogs or articles for them and then wanted that writer to place that all over the internet.

Go look at a dozen houses each week and write offers on as many of them as you're in the ball park.

As long as he does not write the contract and did not get leads from the company, how could there be a problem?

What software are people using to do this?

I am new to real estate so please fill me in as much as possible..First off can I write off meals if I am talking about Real Estate?

In general I think it would be fair to pay the LPs back first prior to any other distributions being made, but I can't really speak (write?)

There is a philosophy that it is not in a RE agent's interest to do a good job screening because the more turn over you have the more leases they write (theoretically).

My point was that anyone could say they are doing such a service and charge an up front fee, then claim it was unsuccessful.I didn't write down the name of the speaker or his company because I figured it was a scam from the start.

Love writing off those vet bills...kidding ;) Truth be told, there are cases where the writing off of such expenses has been allowed.

I have experience in real estate as a mortgage broker, agent and software sales.