I live in North Dakota so everything (showings, communication, document signings) has been accomplished electronically.

I just received "The Book on Flipping Houses" and "Flip" in the mail this week, so I will be diving into them.

@Sean Graham, I recently had a tenant who was non renewed and they didn't pay last months rent so they had a deposit for their new place.I am in the process of taking them to small claims court for breach of contract where I will ask judge to also have them pay my costs to file and serve them assuming I win.If you receive a judgement and they still don't pay them you can file another form to garnish their wages.I don't intend to make garnishment a hardship so they have trouble paying rent at new place and will be open to a 12-36 month payback term, so long as I am made whole on rent and fees.This is my first time going thru the process so I am uncertain of outcome, although I have a paper trail for rents paid and unpaid, and texts from them admitting they were not going to pay.Here is a helpful link.http://www.ag.state.il.us/consumers/smlclaims.htmlBest,Ashley

Will you be receiving payments during the term of the loan?

Who is receiving your mail piece?

The argument can further be made that even advertising the sale of the contract (as opposed to advertising the property) is still brokering because you are bringing a buyer and seller together with the full intention of receiving compensation for your efforts.

Since people pay a fair amount of taxes (similar to NY and CA) the least they expect is free of charge public services Here in LA people have to suffer a burdensome and highly dysfunctional planning administration asking ridiculous amounts of useless studies and documentation, charging insane fees for very bad services.Architects and owners have to deal with up to 10 different agencies with their own requirements, timeline, fees and applications, resulting in massive delays and costs over the roof.

You would have ongoing filing requirements with the State and would need to keep business records and documentation. 

In this circumstance we are looking at having the individual prepare lists from using the local circuit court access website, mail envelopes, and receive and filter calls. 

Have you called around and received quotes from some local insurance agencies?