Everyone has to determine for themselves what their comfort level is, but you also need to be critical of your own motivations, are you investing to maximize your profits, or looking for a hobby to spend your Saturdays on?

Knowing that you can hustle and support yourself in any situation is the greatest stress reliever ever!

They lead the interaction and have to be capable at some level of guiding the client.  

But now I think its time to take it to the next level and turn it into a business.

Chicago Title was willing to help when I got to the branch level. 

THU NGUYEN my personal opinion is, first you have more control how to invest and being engaged at war zone level and second with buy and hold strategy you will build equity and build wealth overtime (long term if you hold your property).

hello troy and all BP family. i think i have some answers for you. first let me start by painting a scenario for you. imagine you are a banker. you have just aqquirred several houses thru repossession. all range in dollars owed to your bank from $30,000 to $300,000. suddenly, the federal government has decided that the flood of foreclosures hitting the market is killing the market and they decide to put a restriction on how many any bank can put back out on the market in any given year. so, you get instructions that, of the 100 houses you have for market, you can list only 25 this year. you have 50 houses that are below the $50k level, and 50 that rise above and way above the $50k level. which ones are you going to market???

First you need to determine the experience level of your broker versus the experience level of the developer trying to buy your property.Is it a small developer partnering with a larger one?

Also, at the lower cost levels their English is quite broken but understandable. 

Generally the cost of hard money will trump that little extra bit your CPA charges you... by a lot.Done this way, I've had REI with multiple properties have a negative number on line 21, but still calculated as cash flow positive because that level of detail on the tax returns (and adding back depreciation) allowed me to do so.