-Alexander ForresterWell one way to build a strong buyer list is going to a lot networking event in different market, and just promote your brand.

Code fines become civil judgements and judgements follow you and ruin your credit report and being "up to code" is essentially a brand new house, so when you buy old housing stock, you run that risk.

Hello,I am brand new to REI and although I have had vague thoughts of doing real estate investing in the past I am truly ready to jump in with both feet! 

Professional tenants...and by tenants, I mean termites.You performed an inspection and found nothing.

And you are limiting yourself the opportunity of savings and quality work by looking for someone who can do two trades in one company, if there are 30 demo contractors and 59 framing, you might only have 5 companies who can do both trades, and most probably they are a self-performing GC and have a GC license.

If we were to build, we would be self performing everything, no subs, all in-house employees (frankly, it's not that hard), financials might be a problem, it is not as strong to build a 1-2M project - gross receipts around 300-400k this year if I were to guess and 290k from march 2014-aug 2014 (our 2014 fiscal year), license and insurance is fine, experience??

I am absolutely brand new to real estate investing.

For example, you can buy a note on a property in Florida (or any other state) that performs and produces more stable and higher income than you may get on a rental property in any of the locations you pitched.

My interest in real estate is long standing, but my desire to jump into this field and become an investor is brand new.

Frankly, If you sign a contract to buy a house at an agreed upon price, I think, ethically, you should perform or walk away without tying up the seller any longer.