I will be continuing into Berkeley to obtain my degree while balancing my RE education and mentorship. 

The Certified contractor deal limits the competition a little, like the asbestos certifications in the 70's and 80's (yes I'm old). 

Does anyone on here know how I can obtain a FARM list for Atlanta.  

As far as private lending and seller financing go, I am beginning to look into those more so as I discover the difficulties in obtaining a bank loan.

Translation - based on this information I not only can not obtain a loan through this lender because they will not loan because it is not "move-in" ready but I can not even use my small reserves as the downpayment required.I'm now officially stuck...

My goal is to eventually obtain a great paying job to fund my RE investments.      

Another source of local information can be obtained at the monthly general meetings of the North Texas Association of Real Estate Investors (www.ntarei.com) which meets near Route 635.

After scrounging through the rental property book and online, I think I ingested too much information and need some clarity.So I'm in the process of a obtaining turnkey SFH in Memphis.

We will have to wait 6 months to obtain a LTV based on new appraised value vs purchase price which will slow down our purchases.

I just looked it up also, I down loaded and looked at the Certificate of Organizations, I have a name and address.