I attended my second local REIA meeting last night and was approached by a more experienced investor who indicated that she owns a house I might be interested in.

I'll probably set up a meeting this weekend sometime, and would love some advice on how to approach the situation.

In my very humble opinion, #1 sounds more personal and approachable- especially if you do the photo like you originally suggested.If I was a distressed seller, I think it would appeal to me to feel like I was going directly to a person instead of a cookie cutter home buyer.Whatever your name choice ends up being I hope it is a successful marketing campaign!

The reality is, spend a bunch of time here on BP, go to a few local Real Estate Clubs in your market, Network and approach of BP members in a PM regarding mentoring.

One way to approach the real estate tax cost (as apposed to personal property tax on furniture & equipment) is to use the approach that assessors often use when they value income producing properties.

That's not to say rents would not increase over time and viewing the asset from an income approach, but as to market, they go down.Mobiles are cheaper to get into.

I've been lurking for about 6 months and really appreciate the realistic approach of this site.

I want to learn from veteran brokers who go to buildings to speak with office users in the flesh.. find out their best approach methods, ways to navigate today's office buildings, and ways they successfully obtain contact information on cold call tenants and obtain data to successfully create a prospect.If you are canvassing office properties to do tenant rep, I'd love to hear your tips and stories.

If I get through today and don’t’ find anything else that makes me run, I’ll approach the next steps which will be the attorney and financing.

Since I had no success with FSBOs & FRBOs on Craigslist, I contacted Realtors with seller listings for sale & for rent on Craigslist.After I asked would their seller consider a lease with option to buy, the Realtor told me there had been 2 contracts that fell through b/c of financing.The Realtor asked me how long would I want to lease and what is my situation.I already mentioned a "lease with option to buy" and the Realtor did not tell me to take a hike, so how should I approach this and answer the Realtor and seller?