Church leaders, professors, soccer moms, retired trades contractors and the only RE experience or assistance might be from a Realtor who volunteers for the feather.

You can ask for a seller's schedule E from their tax return, which should list ALL expenses associated with the property.  

If the deal makes sense to you, execute and profit. 

Toss it, ignore it, burn it, whatever.Also, 3.5 cap rate is still high in most of BK for actual trades - just saying.

I have listened to several of the books recommended on the pod casts - 10x, E-Myth, 4 Hour Work Week, Trump Style Negotiation, The One Thing.

I'm sure you're going to love it here and meet a lot of great people to help you get started.I'd definitely recommend attending local meet-ups and networking with various  trades unless you plan on doing all the work yourself.

(proof positive of my limited intellectual capacity).On a lighter note, I'm pretty happy that I've traded CA's 9.3% state income tax for Ohio's 4.4%.

Once I receive confirmation that they've run the application and see that their credit/criminal/eviction is good, I send them an e-mailed in-house application that lists all the stuff that SmartMove doesn't care about, and I then check that out.In other words, if you do it electronically, there's no way for them to avoid paying the fee.

From Nancy E.

I don't know because I've never done it, but it seems when everything is going the H-E double hockey sticks in a hand basket is the best time to get in and get in for cheap.