The index uses non-farm payroll employment, the index of industrial production, real personal income excluding transfer payments, and real manufacturing and trade sales - along with some fancy statistical transformations.Let's look at it recession by recession..T-0 is the month of the second consecutive occurrence of the index over 4.0% "D Day"T-1 is the month of the first occurrence.

Commingling different types of contract obligations with various investor strategies, at an investor's whim, is dangerous, your contracts must "fit" the strategy to be used.I'm not saying you can't mix contract obligations, I'm saying you can't employ just any strategy (like wholesaling) with agreements that, in this case can't be assigned lawfully unless you modify your strategy to conform to the type of agreement being made.    

Look for areas with rising real estate sales, employment growth, and other indications that the town will rebound from the recession.Sound Condition.

I chalked it up to not having an agent list the house, but now I have a buddy doing one with a "top" agent, and I don't think they have even given a single tour.Major employers/economic drivers are a university and an air force base, so lots of people who are here for a few years, but may leave and not want to buy.

So I plan to learn every single way possible whether I decide to employ that strategy or not.

I have a simple IRA that was started through a previous employer that I think I would like to self direct.

The best tool in there is their direct link to social media.More costly but worth it:We have access to a service called tracers that, for .50 per pull, gets us some of the most up to date info on anyone out there.We also employ a couple of private eyes that are somewhat entrepreneurial that will not only locate the owner but set up the appt for between 500-1000 per closed transaction.These are a few of the tools we use to locate our sellers...

Hi everyone,Not sure this is the right forum for such a post but ill lay it out here anyway.My current field of employment is on a huge downtrend.

Similarly to you, I am looking to step away from my full-time employment and move more fully into real estate work.

Several cases have defined a "finder" this way; "The finder is a person whose employment is limited to bringing the parties together so that they may negotiate their own contract, and the between the finder and the broker frequently turns upon whether the intermediary has been invested with authority or duties beyond merely bringing the parties together, usually the authority to participate in negotiations."