If you burn your agent now, who knows how the relationship will be later on.I like the idea of raising the price so all of your closing costs are paid and so is your agent.

“If I don’t remember appearing on the TV show, then I don’t recall anything that was said, sir,” she replied to a question from attorney Clayton Matheson, who represents some investors.He later wanted to know where more than $2.3 million that Van Gundy borrowed on various real estate holdings — including her home — had gone.

So, just speculating here, if they bought a slew of notes with the expectation of flipping them within a few months for say a 10% profit, but they have a hypothecated loan against these for say 12%+, and are still holding them 12 months later are quickly underwater. 

I've noticed many investors initially write their contracts under an LLC, only to later amend the contract to their personal name to secure better financing options.

@Kim Tran Yea like what @Jackson Hanssen Is saying here, you can only 1031 investment property for investment property, and later down the line convert it to your primary residence.

Wholesaling would be signing up for a job that will make you hate real estate and waste money (even though your sales background would help, I would use it to acquire for yourself later), so house hacking is a great option because you learn landlording.

Leveraging debt is our foundation as investors, but paying it down when we can will always open up more opportunities to get creative with out money later on. 

In other words, they cannot later change their minds or memories and say something different.

A refinance later will have extra costs if you maintain FHA, but be cheaper on closing costs converting to conventional later, but conventional loans usually have higher rates.

Here's the hard truth: if you can't manage what you've got, you won't manage what you gain.Someone wins the lottery and ends up bankrupt a couple years later.