If you want to do a total gut job on a house, you are talking 8 weeks or more maybe plus a much more complicated project with permits and multiple subs etc, plus some design work.

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Real estate is a relatively simple business (as in not complicated).

Rich,I love your comment.While some things in life can be difficult, I believe that the majority (not everyone) tends to over-complicate things these days.I am not suggesting that anybody take action that is foolish or unfounded, but people spend more effort and attention on finding faults, disproving, or criticizing and complicating things, rather than focusing on the simply underlying factors that are important and matter most.Is that your book?

Information is the first step in the process.The rules are too complicated for me to sort out but what my legal master mind group tells me is that the lenders are full of sh-- and they can make no such stipulation that is binding.First, in a short sale they are not the owners so are not able to use any of the exceptions to the "prohibition against restraints on alienation" (this is legal mumbo jumbo for "I say you can't sell it after you buy it")As a lender they may be able to provide funding under certain conditions but in a short sale they are not the lender either.This does get more complicated when Fannie or Freddie or the short sale investor but the rules still apply.Second, many investors mistakenly don't put this up front in their contracts, (I only just learned this technique myself from people I met on this website).see below.."

Its hard to order cabinets at all and the on line sites are very complicated.

I have some vacant houses that I found the phone number of the owner, and Im wondering what tips and techniques you all use/have for cold calling.

Ive been listening to Bob Diamonds material and one technique caught my attention that is called a "net listing".

On the others, you'll have to do a little digging in the county records, then start calling or mailing.Some folks seem to have luck with HUDs or REOs, but there are complications with wholesaling those.They call them bandit signs for a reason.

I recently went to an REIA meeting where Than Merrill (A&E's flipping homes) came as the guest speaker. He had a very intriguing course titled "Real Estate Marketing for Deals"

Does anyone have or knows anyone wh...