If your serious about this we want you to come, if nothing else it would be a great support group for staying in the game and hopefully we all motivate each other to achieve our goals. 

If you can come to terms with a Seller, you definitely want to engage either a title company and/or a real estate lawyer to ensure the transaction is executed correctly, the deed, deed of trust and promissory note are all drawn up correctly and filed so that both parties are protected

My strategy is to use FHA financing to allow me to put down 3.5% to basically get me in the game, live in one unit for 12 months, and get out of there to rent out the fourth unit.

My strategy is to use FHA financing to allow me to put down 3.5% to basically get me in the game, live in one unit for 12 months, and get out of there to rent out the fourth unit.

I accidentally included the address and MLS number in the title.

Make sure you do proper due diligence and work with a good title company.

It's a different ball game if 25-30k is playing money.

Having 1st lien on the title and the borrower having a low LTV ratio were the two things I looked for.

After getting a property under contract, taking it to title company along with EMD, and making contact with a buyer...

I don't know of any way to verify he isn't playing games if he is smart about it.