Has anyone done a conventional (Fannie/Freddie) loan on any of your investment properties, then transferred the deed into your Corporation or LLC to achieve asset protection?

Even if I don't do the whole vacation home buy and hold, I know my primary focus is on buying and holding residential properties.

@Steve Babiak we share the last 4 digits of our bank account for the deposit (easier to remember than the whole number).

I've studying investing for awhile and read the books and done the whole seminar experience.

It looks like you've got all the right things lined up to make a good run at achieving your goal to flip a property in the next year or so.

One of the guys lent $15,000 the other $5,000.I feel that part of the whole package is to make sure I'm good for my word, so I've made the agreed upon payments (as expected).

In the past, I've been subject to some mondo errors and omissions by Escrow, but title insurance could not make me whole.

I am looking for guidance as to how to start to achieve my goal of investing in my first property.

I just pulled the Extended listings for the whole state and roughly 60 out of 275 had an "As-Is" value of 0.

That is 27 weeks after I paid for the house in full and 27 weeks more of unpaid taxes and other costs that you will have to pay.That increase in hold time was another big reason I stopped going to auctions.BTW, if you plan to bid on condos there is a whole other host of issues with back assessments and other charges that you will be stuck with.I could go on.