You need to incorporate with an attorney and not off-the-shelf or download from a website incorporation papers, it needs to be modified specifically for the intent and purpose of the business.

Our maintenance operations are similarly "disconnected" and are mostly handled by having tenants call in or email in requests and then we dispatch out the individual requests to different handy men or vendors, repairs/work orders are mostly tracked via a "paper process" so things sometimes fall through the cracks.   

My simple system is that all utilities that I pay (for example my personal utilities) I put on autopay.Then when I buy a new property I very deliberately sign up for utilities and elect NOT to do autopay but ensure that I am getting an emailed or paper bill.

Landlord is willing to hold paper.

On Paper Euclid seems to be a perfect candidate.

I had a co wholesaler who I was working the deal with that threw in the towel within a few months because the seller was so wishy washy.

The papers indicate it is In the foreclosure process.  

Thanksyeah thats right but i am not looking specifically to flip properties... i am trying to just get a return on my cash ... my goal is to buy a fixer upper to produce a better return on my cash than a turnkey propert... regarding cap rate... its a formula that is just for comparison ... its not the end of to real estate investing, i just use it to get a sense of what markets i am looking at in my area.its your net operating income / purchase price... so if you net 10,000 a year after all costs and the property was 100,000 then you have a 10 capit takes leverage and downpayments etc out of the equation and makes things easier to break down for me personallythe higher the cap rate the higher the theoretical return on paper.

But, you'll get there.SOLUTION: 1) Join a local Real Estate Investment Group * Here is one: Holiday Inn Virginia Beach Norfolk Hotel and Conference Center 5655 Greenwich Road Virginia Beach VA 23462 Meeting Time: Third Tuesday, 7pm-9pm doors open at 6:30 Contact Information: Luke Kohne*800*874*49762) Contact them and get involved (or ask for one located near where you are) 3) Ask everyone you run into there if they are willing to let you work with them to learn the trade - at this point I'd work for free - earn their respect - it will pay dividends - you will learn a lot of what you need to know4) Check out Bigger Pockets and Youtube and learn everything you can on "Subject To", "Lease Options", "Wraps", and "Land Contracts" - Now, that may sound intimidating, but hey, you wrote Term Papers didn't you?

I have an agent that I like but he does not do electronic contracts. This is wildly frustrating and inconvenient, and I think it puts me at a competitive disadvantage - let alone that it wastes a lot of my time.I am m...