Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated.

I would also just suggest getting involved in local real estate meetups.

Hello all, I was going to review Zillow on Google, but I guess they are too big to need reviews.

Open to suggestion and also curious to hear of anyone doing creative finance deals when there's an FHA mortgage in place.Here's my thoughts:- Offer him $1,000 to accept the agreement, which is about a $2,000-$3,000 swing from what he would make[lose] if he were to go to market.

I was told to review the two documents before finalizing anything.

If you have the money now to replace the carpet, I would suggest investing it for the next two years. 

We as a firm have investors working with us who have rental properties all over the US big and small.Finding a real estate-focused tax professional and one who can help with advisory and grow with you would be my suggestion to focus your efforts on finding.

Not a simple task as HDC suggests.

This is not a problem if you use a licensed CA real estate broker to originate your loan since they get an exemption against usury for loans secured by real estate.My strong suggestion is to find an experienced hard money lender at a local real estate club to originate the loan for your lender.

If I was confident one way or another I would place my investing "bets" accordingly, but for now I make decisions based on where the data and trends suggest the most reliable chance of producing a return.