@Freddie Williams, if you are going to do a seller carry, I recommend you use a third party servicing company to make sure the payments are being applied towards the balance of the seller carry note. 

So I listened to this podcast again for the third time just tonight and totally missed that first part where @Brandon Turner mentions how difficult refinancing has been for his recent conventional refinance and he had to write an essay on why refinancing is a good thing. 

It's difficult to make it because I hate missing my kids sports games so I usually only come when it's raining!!

In other words you make monthly payments but after 5 years you have to pay the balance of the mortgage.

So I took out a few more to balance it and then sheetrocked that area. 

It's very difficult to find an actual manager or hire a private party as there are liability and insurance issues. 

Feel free to reach out for help with comps on properties that a difficult.

May be difficult in the Austin area, but if it's achievable, do it. 

Because she has been a very difficult tenant so I always had to think ahead.

There are already statutes and regulations regarding fraud and deception in real estate transactions.Educating people who want to be educated is fine, but if a governing body restricts the pool of ready and willing buyers, more properties will go to foreclosure and sit on the market longer.Real estate investors perform a vital function in every jurisdiction: putting properties back on the market, in good condition.Many of the properties they buy could never pass conventional lender's inspection because they typically require tens of thousands of dollars in repairs that most homeowners do not have or cannot do themselves.Additionally, many real estate investors near metropolitan centers can access almost an unlimited pool of funding to buy and remodel properties if the numbers work.From contract to close, the time can be in as little as 3-4 business days.The delay is mostly waiting on title companies.So when flippers mail letters and post cards to owners saying they can "close quick" and "all cash", that is a fact, not fraud.Of course, realtors will recommend you list your property – that's how they make money – so they are self-interested, which makes the report biased.Maybe next time you can have a "flipper" on you show for balanced reporting.The idea of anyone feeling "pressured" by getting a post card or flyer is ludicrous.If the homeowner doesn't want to sell, the solution is to throw them away.But the idea of "there ought to be a law" is equally ludicrous.If there are bad actors committing fraud, the answer is to enforce the laws already on the books.Out of all the properties posted for sale every 1st Tuesday of the month at the trustee's sale, a very large percentage never make it because they are bought by the very flippers you disparaged.If not for the real estate investing community, cities around the country would look much, much worse.My biggest complaint with your report is that you completely failed to get the rest of the story.Your editor needs address this."