Start building the relationship with the right agent, so that you have your "team" established when the other pieces are in place.

I am willing to do what it takes to be successful and I hope to establish great connections and partnerships through this forum as well as help to empower and inspire others as well.  

I hope to eventually establish a modest pipeline of rehabs and use some of the profits to buy rental properties for long term cashflow.I would love to hear from the contingent of DFW members out there, hear your stories and what strategies have (and have not) worked for you!

My theory was to establish relationships with reo agent and hopefully work out a deal with them before they put it live on the mls.

Regardless of the actual day of the month, a tax code uses a mid-month convention to establish the starting day of the month an asset is placed in service. 

Equity Deals - Work with an established Flipper and Short Sale Experts.

Obviously if he finds a property and ties and it up when he goes to secure financing the lender will probably have issue with him being the appraiser giving a valuation, and that is where the disclosure becomes important.My daughters mom and I are doing some custody stuff using the same family law attorney right now, no issue there it's well known by all involved, and we know if things were to go south we'd both have to get new attorneys, but we're not fighting just trying to establish everything together for our daughter.

So, we've established that 2 CMA's on 2 Properties is not unreasonable, but I get the point made by J Scott.I'll ask my Realtor soon.

I'd call one out who's well established and see what options they give you.

But again, these rules are relaxed when it comes to accredited investors.In the coming months, the SEC is working to establish laws which loosens this restriction (with defined parameters into how much an individual can invest, etc. ). - Keeping a close eye on this.But there are many good resources and thoughts out there on how crowdfunding laws will come about.