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that has only 1-2 actual tenants on the property with numerous abandoned homes.

I am focusing on wholesaling and lease option strategies to start with...and hope to continue to expand my knowledge and experience as I go.Bigger Pockets has come up on numerous google searches for me whenever I had questions, and I found the information here to be quite diverse and extremely helpful.  

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There are numerous property owners moving with this idea already. 

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When you're in the business of dealing in options, you are in a different category than ma and pa doing a one time option deal, laws become applicable to dealers, such as RE licensing, SEC, Finance regulations, advertising, HUD regulations, accounting requirements and taxation as mentioned. 

Joe Scanlon has done numerous tax appeals for me.

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