I have no "issues" with those buying from brokers, they need to eat too, or out of group pyramid schemes (if you're on the top side of the chains), but buying from the note holder will be your best pricing, easier due diligence with individual note holders and therefore, less risks.

Gives me the ability to make my own meals, my kids feel more at home in a condo environment, and often times we can park the car for most of the week and either walk or ride beach cruisers wherever we're going.Maybe check with the local chamber of commerce and look at historical performance of the tourism industry there - that might give you a good idea of how busy the place is year round.  

This may include an out-if-chain document.2) Claim of Right - this is the 'squatter's rights' method of obtaining title to real estate, originally intended to put fallow agricultural fields to productive use.Both forms of acquisition should be considered the "tools of last resort" and require a minimum of five elements, including the payment of property taxes as well as trespassing.Back to vacant lot:Last weekend a friend invited me to visit her project - a house that she's building on Newport Beach, CA's pricey Lido Isle.

They may have enough votes to pass state law, but they don't control local governments.I'm in a town of 60,000 and we've got a brand new Coles, a brand new Olive Garden, and several brand new restaurants and small business that aren't chains, including an enormous sporting goods warehouse.

I was trying to avoid big chain banks.

I'm working FT as a supply chain management supervisor for a aerospace and defense contractor.

You will obviously get a lot a real estate biased responses here but in some cases it's just better to work your way up the food chain or open a small business to get where you want faster.

@Andrew Johnson, I definitely wasn't planning on picking up any ball and chain purchases that would require money on an on going basis, but excellent advise!

Reading one of the wholesale books I purchased alone was a great insight into the RE value chain and has spurred me to really dive into estimating rehab/repair costs which I might not have done this soon without the immediate "incentive".

I'll stay in a $50/night hotel so I can meet new people, on the same trip might have a $250 meal (like I just did at Morimoto's).