I have a current deal that will become very profitable for me as a wholesaler and I'm wondering after all the back and forth with the seller, he opted that the only way we could lock down this great investment property deal which has good margins in it if and only if I put down $1000 earnest money deposit in a trust account with his personal real estate attorney.

Since finding BP I have consumed about 45 of the podcasts.

It's hard to diversify in RE as a beginner if your not already independently wealthy.Investing can consume as little or as much time as you choose.

I am a hard working sales professional hungry for knowledge.I know that to get out of life you need to give, and I have 15 years of Outside Sales experience selling to businesses, government, and door to door consumer with relentless followup that can sell.

All good advice - it's time consuming for contractors to come and prepare bids...especially if it is for a larger more involved project.

That was costly, time consuming and very stressful for his widowed wife.

Renters are consumers.

As you mentioned - Getting rid of the consumer debt will give us an emotional uplift to stay the course, and we’ll regain $492/mo in Earned Income.

The more mailers you send the more time consuming it becomes.

Commercial loans can and still do have balloons.Dodd-Frank was targeted at screwing up, er, uh, I mean, fixing consumer owner occupied lending.It has nothing to do with commercial.