You need to see how you communicate, things in common, are they honest, judge integrity, you may not need the most successful you may want more knowledge and experience with an agent that doesn't have to beat their head in to stay afloat, they may have retired from another profession so they may have time to take more interest in you.You're looking for a personal business relationship, not a girl friend or drinking buddy, but someone who has ethical standards, knows the business is current understands investing aspects and that has time to devote attention to you.

Unless people have unauthorized pets, people over our occupancy standards, or a court eviction, we encourage everyone to fill out an application.

A standard purchase and sale agreement is all you need from the seller.

As an example, beach front in Ambergris sells for 10K a linear foot, but the average in the Caribbean is around 24K a linear foot of beach front, so it is still undervalued by Caribbean standards.

A standard loan used to refinance the construction loan.In any standard loan you can lock with most lenders further into the future but you will have to pay for the lock, which is why most folks stick with the norm of a 30 day lock.All in all, most borrower do not control when their rate is formally locked.

This 24 month seasoning was quoted as "industry standard" in which I am skeptical.

If I see newer improvements on the property but no recent permits on file, I walk away because there's a potential that the work completed was sub-standard quality.

Laws prohibit the establishment of a "standard industry rate" in the truest sense of the word - it is considered price fixing.

Here are the standard "cheap" ways into housing.

I used a standard P&S agreement but their attorney felt it didn't protect the buyer as well so they drew up another contract that will be between the buyer and seller and an addendum that states I get the $4,000.