Make sure you know what you can get the house to appraise for and how to work with the appraiser to arrive at the number. 

My card is pretty dogeared and bent, but it reminds me often how I arrived where I am.

It does not make any difference how it is delivered but if by mail must arrive by the due date.

I bought lots when I arrived here just north of the villages and highway 42.

If there is anything I can do to help you once arriving in town please let me know.

I will look into it when I arrive in Fl.Does anybody know of good private/hard money lenders in Fl?

Eventually through negotiations, the lender will arrive at a bottomline price.

They will have the property appraised (the loan amount is up to $409K, the rep on the phone guesstimated the value to be around $241K--not sure how she arrived at that), and give us a 1st mtg (FHA) at 97% LTV, with the remaining amount up to what we currently owe put into a second mtg w/ 0% int for 3 yrs.

Reed’s website -- it’s interesting as a starting point, but it is frankly a bit scary the scant evidence he sometimes provides for some of the harsh conclusions he arrives at [I like evidence not opinion…… e.g. his position on multifamily management, a debate he posts with David Lindahl [sp], allegedly. – Mr.

You want to be there at the moment they are ready, and that means multiple mailings, to arrive at the precise moment that selling fills their mind.