Thanks to BiggerPockets.com we have made several great contacts, and built relationships with numerous companies that deal with REO sales.

(she's my "all business" alter ego!)

I found that most of the successful people that I read about all say that Dale Carnegies “How to Win Friends and Influence People†changed their life.

In stocks, those things can help you, but they can't add value to the investment itself.That is true, but you can't reinvest income from your real estate and have more of it without altering your risk position like you can stocks/ETFs.

Save your $50 filing fee, get on with your life and enjoy the holidays.

I've got the biggest ulcer of my life on this one.

I am in the field and on the phone and traveling, but my life is what I have always wanted it to be, but I am comfortable, whatever that means.I am living the American dream the way I envisioned it to be.

I always have numerous ads running on craigslist and backpage for buyers.

lol..I guess I never thought about the coaching side of life since I got none and just run on auto-pilot.

As collateral, I can use 80% of FMV of any stocks or CD's, 90% of cash value life insurance, 90% of assessed value of my properties minus loan balances OR 80% of appraised value of my properties minus loan balances.I thought it was interesting that they will allow discounted collateral off of either the appraised value or assessed value, because there can be a huge disparity between the two (and assessed values are almost never accurate in my area).This particular lender will also occasionally do commercial loans on residential properties, but they will only do a couple of those normally (which is why I'm going for a BLOC).I am working on pulling my stuff together for them, so we'll see how this shakes out and how much I can get approved for...