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

I'm a software engineer in the Boston-area (Waltham), but I have a strong interest in real estate and development.

Jeff I do not consider myself a heavy hitter at all.Currently i have 5 quads for a total of 20 units but I am always looking for more under the right terms FOR ME.I am currently looking at 20 to 30 more units in my same development to purchase.I have an onsite maintenance man and property manager.I am a commercial real estate broker so my day consist of talking to clients and closing my commercial deals and then having reviews with my property manager of where everything is at and how it is going.My properties are value add deals whereby with work we are creating a large amount of forced equity into the project.So my highest dollars per hour is writing contracts and doing deals and talking to clients and working my own investments for myself.Anything else I try to delegate out to workers that make less per hour average then I do.good luck

@ Bob- I love the way a 50% write down was not a "credit event" that triggers a CDS settlemennt.And there are those amoung us that say the "markets" aren't rigged....

Tony,I had a mentor with several decades in buying and selling apartment complexes for himself and his syndicate, and he told me the only way to really get into the apartment business is to write a letter to each of the apartment building owners in a particular market.

I'm trying to figure out how putting it in writing is going to benefit me?

With the latter they will only pay out the cash value if the house is a write-off.

Today, my lawyer of 7 years just remarked that he could write a very interesting law book off the cases I have brought him over the years.

For any paperwork that the seller needs to fill out, I write my initials small in one corner.

Mike,If you are going to be doing a lot of wholesaling of commercial properties, you might want to look at a software package called ProAPOD.