Basically, I look for the opposite of Detroit (where people are having trouble giving away houses for half what they paid for them 20 years ago - only minor exaggeration on this).

As I recall, these are pretty basic houses.

Try to get as much time as possible...so if you have a 45 day option for $100,000 and you find someone to buy the property for $110,000 you make the $10,000 (obviously it's more detailed than this, but you get the basics).

Basically the discussion came down to what to include.

You basically just bought it "subject to" for nothing!

I will start off with some basics: I work full time in the tech industry and make a decent income.

i guess my first priority right now is to learn some basics first, i dont even know many of the terminology yet. secondly i guess i should start saving up money and building credit!

So basically the main difference between a bird dog and a wholesaler is that the bird dogger just finds the property for the investor and the wholesaler actually puts the property under agreement and then shops it to his investors?

I sent a letter to the address basically saying I might be interested if you would entertain selling and I may be able to make it well worth your while.

Just curious for anyone that has done some development work, if there are any basic numbers to follow for bringing in electric and phone?