Properties are taking up to 5 months here to sell, so I'd prefer to know there has been interest and even offers on mine, before seriously considering the replacement.

In this market, cash is preferred over anyone who needs to get financing because financing is tight to non-existent.

I know there are those that prefer not to use the MLS - and advise against it.

Yes, if you want to bird dog, go ahead and contact them and find out their parameters for investing, then find some properties and make some money by identifying motivated sellers via bandit signs or whatever marketing you prefer.

You do need to figure out which animal you prefer - residential or commercial, office or retail, etc.

So you need to sell the property to another investor preferably @ 70% or below ARV (After Repair Value). 8.

If you had the choice to pay $22,500 for a property that would have a cash flow of $100 per month or pay $360,700 for a property that cash flows $100 per month, I would generally choose number one every time.

Finding Tenant Buyers FIRST (get a website just for Tenant Buyers) and go find a house they can afford (chicken and the egg dilemma) is my preferred approach.

The government would make periodic capital injections by buying convertible preferred shares or warrants, ***meaning, we will be paid first if we can not save this thing*** Holders of the companies' common and preferred stock are ``very unlikely to come out of this at all happy,'' and the chief executive officers will be forced out, Frank said.

So I prefer to use a pet deposit.But now, if my tenants move out before the year is up, I get a little extra for the nuisance of a quick turn-over.But the real benefit is that the lying little cheats who claim to want a long term rental when they know full well that they intend to move after 3 months will go some place else to rent as soon as they hear that it will cost them an extra $300 for lying about their intentions.