Looking at properties after reading some blogs and articles is premature.

Something like planting a tree or building a little breakfast nook or something.You'll get your "fix" while not gumming up the works.I used to like building a beautiful custom dining table that I'd just leave in the house with a little note like, "Welcome home!

This may be a premature post but I’m putting my thoughts out there as I’m eager to begin real estate investing!

On the other hand if their unit is in terrible shape and I can't actually offer them all of $x I feel like I might have fixated them on a high price prematurely.

Seems a little premature of you to jump to such conclusions so fast...I am not on this forum 24/7...I have responded to each and every private request but I am not so sure I will to yours....

That would only create a hostile situation prematurely.

But, that probably would have been criminal fraud, if only at the bubble-gum level, and I just don't go down that stress-filled road.

Your competition is from experienced wholesalers all the way down to people that have googled it and are now gumming up the works.

I've always been attracted to buying and selling things - cars, gum, whatever.

Take a step back and look at what is happening:ï‚· Subprime meltdownï‚· Housing bubbleï‚· Foreclosure crisisï‚· Bear Stearns collapseï‚· Countrywide Mortgage rescueï‚· Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bailoutï‚· Lehman going underï‚· Merrill Lynch takeoverï‚· Wamu in troubleï‚· Wachovia in troubleï‚· Citibank at riskï‚· Banks pool together $70 BILLION to shore up liquidityThe financial & banking system is being held together with bubble gum and bailing wire.