The point I make to others who ask me this question is this: if you have no experience writing contracts (or negotiating them), it would be more cost effective in the long run, by footing the bill for an attorney upfront rather than go at it yourself and hope for the best. a mistake could cost more than the fees you "should" have paid out in the beginning.

Market to the list (I use postcards), give them a "free report on private lending" (you can write it yourself), once you have enough people interested hold an informational ONLY meeting.

I don’t want a selling agent saying no just because he couldn’t be bothered to put the offer in because it was very low, I want to see it in writing.

One of the great parts about meeting women in the investment arena - your dating life becomes a tax write-off.

The Valuation has been generated by use of proprietary computer software which assembles publicly available property records and certain proprietary data to arrive at an approximate estimate of home valuation.

I then write him a reimbursment check for his $60K+ from the "proceeds" of the sale.

It comes off as someone that was a writer for a newspaper trying to write a book and collect the residual income that comes with it more than anything informative.

but ok When you sell a house the bank writes a mortgage from there nothing money.

It was very nice of you to take the time to write that out.

I would start shopping the deal around to my investors while I was still countering w the bank, and if I found someone interested, I would accept the offer, have my buyer write me a check, and then use that money to give to the bank.