This is the case with most of my buddies as well. 

I have a couple buddies from my unit who have years of experience in real estate and as lenders, so they will be helping us out through it all. 

Brian Person is a buddy of mine (and a darn good salesman) and we both used to work in real estate financing and we are both now in investing.

Welcome Melchor,I am fairly new to BP, I'm a buy and hold investor from oakbrook terrace/villa park area, I own a few properties in different suburbs throughout Illinois, one of my buddies had properties in Berwyn.

These realtors are giving these properties to their investor buddies, and is making unfair competition for other investors. 

These realtors are giving these properties to their investor buddies, and is making unfair competition for other investors.

Your moving like molasses buddy.

Hey Buddy,One strategy you could use is Owner Finance.

That $3000 pays for not only the evaluations of the property by local real estate professionals familiar with the market, it pays for the real estate professional in our office who  goes through the numbers of the deal with the borrower to make sure that it is even worth ordering evaluations, it pays for the project manager who goes through the contractor bid line by line to make sure that the bid is actually  what needs to be done and not some type of "buddy pricing" or artificially low so that it appears to qualify for financing.

I was talking with a buddy of mine today.