The sample motivated seller questionnaire (and explanation paragraphs) on this page will equip you to avoid this common newbie mistake.If you're new to wholesaling or creative real estate investing, you can save yourself a whole lot of mental and financial anguish by asking a series of two or three questions to help you decide whether to deal with a property seller or not.The information you gather from a well crafted motivated seller questionnaire can also help you determine whether the property in question is worth investigating further, regardless of what you find about the urgency of the seller's situation.The section below will take you through a shortened sample form and discuss each section in detail.Contact Information Full NameHome PhoneWork Phone (maybe fax also)AddressSpouse Name (if any)Email AddressProperty Address (For Sale)How did you find us?

Providing you the proof that whatever Jerryll is sharing with the REI Community, is worth investigating.

I suspect the lowlife tenants aren't going to pay for the list in the first place.I haven't used HAPCO's paid by landlord service yet, but you might want to investigate them if you are paying other services.As I've stated repeatedly here on BP, my best tenant prospects were found from the "For Rent" signs in front of the house; since I have rentals in a cluster, I put a sign on the occupied ones too.

If someone were to be investigated, I would envision it more likely to be investigated at a state level vs. federal. 

It may be wise to do a lot more investigating as far as having a knowledge of cost and other aspects of rehabs before you dive in to the deep end without a life preserver.  

Buyer didn't notarize, just signed the Preliminary Change of Ownership (although I had the deed notarized on my end). 

@James Wise  also selling real estate in any form without a licesne IE wholesalingI finally got fed up and got a state of Oregon investigator from the DRE to engage in an E mail with me."

If you want to stay local and house hack, I would spend the time first learning to analyze deals, then investigating towns and neighborhoods where the numbers seem like they might work better than where you are right now.

I'm in the preliminary phase of considering a condo for renting there.

I was going to quick claim the deeds of the houses to LLCs for additional liability purposes, and I was investigating options of how to structure the ownership and the income flow primarily for the purpose of lowering my tax burden.