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Hello, I am a 23 year old professional ball player, for the leuevn bears in leuevn Belgium.

Ron, there are so many hundreds of investors in eastern Massachusetts, that to my knowledge, there are not just a few dominant players.

Recently online poker has been shut down to US players and is having legal issues so I have retired from that and don't consider it a fixed/stable income anymore.2) Land contract.

Most of the big players in this market have large portfolios in many states.

I build my programs and forecasts from watching and analyzing the large financial players, as they truly set the pace that then trickles thru, and that trickle thru gives time to position.

Spinning my wheels, networking with as many investors as possible, searching for the real deals, just basically putting in work and realizing it doesn't happen over night...For all the major players, the true investors: if you would please,enlighten me and all the newbies out there, what your typical day or week is spent doing...

The single family play is more the break even in cash flow (sorta like what you proposed) and hold out for equity appreciation, eventually selling it to cash out or cashing out on rents when you own free and clear in 30 years.I'm more of a cash flow player and thus look at multifamily houses.

If they're truly sophisticated, they'd look at a Yr 1 guaranty and conclude: "Ok, that's a nice little add-on of little value, since the chance of anything happening in Year 1 are remote, at best, but I'll take it, fine, and the other company I talked to didn't offer it".If industry players are so worried about these guarantees, it follows that many buyers are not in fact sophisticated.

I would suggest telling them you are a player in their market and you should meet for lunch to see how you can work together to make more coin in 2012.