Particularly be sure to include your goals for real estate investing so that folks can help you. 2) Follow your favorite forum topics and set up keyword alerts!

Outside of those bubbles, New Haven struggles a lot with poverty, crime and homelessness and the city is far from straightforward to work with.I’ve struggled at essentially every property with rent collection except for properties where I had all Section 8 tenants.

If no, you are wasting a lot of effort and I will tell you why.The more shady the marketing, the more you need to push your credibility scorre up.If you have a nmber 1 ranking website and a ton of reviews and you are all over facebook with thousands of lieks and comments and myou give to charity and people talk about you and Google suggests you when people seach for keywords... sure you have enough credibility.But put a bandit sign out and people have no idea who or what you are  they need to have a way to find you on their own when they try to do a bit of research about you.So now you spend all this effort cold calling and what not, and when you DO finally score and the person is somewhat interested or at least curious, and you can not provide a website with your mission statement, an about us, and info about you, guess what will happen.

Set up keyword alerts to be notified of the topics that interest you: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alertsBest of luck investing!

If you're effectively filling orders for a legit buyer then wholesaling to them becomes a straightforward matter.As was already mentioned, however, you may be best served not focusing on trying to wholesale and instead buying the land at a steep discount and going straight to the retail market.

When it comes to finding deals in real estate, particularly in the multifamily sector, it's not as straightforward as browsing online listings.

I find the formulas a bit more straightforward to me and easier to find when I need them, so I haven't focused on organizing them into one place... yet.

This should be a relatively easy and straight forward loan, @Christine Barker.

@Jon B.In my experience, rehabbing with fire damage is pretty straightforward. 

I offered cash, about $10k below asking...pretty straight forward.