Why the handwritten note approach?

I have heard both approaches - to look for a top listing agent to refer sellers to that have (or believe they have) properties that will sell for retail values.

Curtis Harris if you are looking at this as your homestead, and maybe you are self employed, or there are reasons you can't get financed now...then I would approach listed owners or FSBO owners in the area (school district) you are looking for and explain that you can pay top dollar but you need 24 months to cash them out...or whatever.

Also, to make it more interesting there is a tenant in place already.Let me know if there is a common way to approach this scenario.

A friend approached me to help him with a property he inherited from his mom passing where a developer wanted to buy from him for commercial development.The developer after me catching everything in the contract to tie up the property with the seller asked me to work with him on the other parcels as he would rather be working with me than against me assembling the properties.Off I went after that for about 3 years in land development and then went into existing investment properties.I did things kamikaze style and figured them out on my own through the school of hard knocks.In your situation if you are focusing on apartments I would do the following.

There was an article posted recently on the BP blog about partnership agreements, written by an incredibly smart author (ok ok it's my post) In any case hope this helps: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/01/10/real-estate-partnership-agreements/

Unless you take that approach, you won't really be confident that the facts are accurate and complete, or the reasoning in the analysis is sound.Second, while I agree that the lender will have its own underwriting criteria and that satisfying those criteria is what matters most, that doesn't mean a good analysis and presentation are superfluous.

So, when someone joins from that area, the local guys all jump in and network.I hope people from other areas take heed -- our keyword tool is an incredibly powerful tool for building up your network, and the gang from Austin seems to have figured that out.

After my nightmare experience with some really bad tenants, the tenant i replaced in February 2012 has been nothing but pleasant. She is a executive interior designer for a major bank and she remodeled my kitchen. She...

I can honestly give you the shotgun approach to your first deal, but you have to know that this business is for the ones who don't hesitate and that take immediate action.