The theory goes as the economy moves from expansion to contraction and back again, there are certain sectors of the market you need to be in, e.g. energy, consumer staples, tech, chemicals.

After a while real estate will consume your life in a good way and wherever you go you'll be looking for opportunities to add to your retirement portfolio.

It is a shame that many lenders fail to educate their applicants/consumers about lending practices and how credit card debts, student loans, car payments etc can affect their loan qualifications.

Here's the "Retail/Consumer" frontend of our MLS system:http://www.realtracs.com/PropertySearchMap.aspxAs you can see, this doesn't just include residential.http://www.realtracs.com/ChoosePropertyType.aspx?

It's is very time consuming.

Then it is true transactional funding and is relatively inexpensive, because the risk to the lender of the transactional funds is lower, due to the "C" buyer being ready to close immediately.Longer than that, or with fewer assurances, and you are in hard money territory.

They deal with agent vs. consumer issues.

If a rehabber overprices a retail house by small amount, fewer people might look at it.

If you work as hard on your screening process (while still being consumer friendly) as you do on your rehabs, you'll be fine.K.I.S.S. concept, dude.

If you're in a nicer area, you will not get 2%, but you will have fewer problems.