I'm really looking forward to picking your brain about some general, non-RE investment, business questions at the meetup.

I've had some REO purchase experience as a non-investor in the past.

Make sure when you take credit apps that the money is non-refundable before payment.The possible tenants need to understand so they do not make a loud fight later on about returning the fee.

I have experience using a Hard Money Loan to "bridge" the gap between non-traditonal financing to a traditional source.

I did much of the non-technical work - always leave plumbing/electrical etc to the pros.

•You would Receive Non-refundable option consideration money payments.

Even so, if you are really the one running the business, you are probably doing business in California and liable for the tax.All this being said, you might as well just form a California LLC and save paying the registration to the other (Non-CA) state.

Each strategy gets 2 short pages of treatment.

So then we added PMI in order to borrow at least $80K; I figured this was fine since it’s only $6 a month and I can turn right around and pay it back down if I want.The next issue arose because it’s an 8-unit condo and one non-resident person owns two units.

Ya........Military spending is 1/6 of spending, but there are large swaths of that budget that are NOT "military" in nature, including (of all things) research into treatments for autism, lawyers to provide guidance regarding 'equal opportunity employment' and I could go on, and on and on......