If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

Time to build the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.By the way - here are my favorite articles on Wholesaling: 9 Reasons You Couldn’t Find A Buyer For Your Wholesale DealDon’t Start Wholesaling Until You Read This: Wholesale Advice from a Fix and FlipperHow to Start Wholesaling: Getting Past The Education and Into the FieldFinally -be sure to setup some keyword alerts - especially for "Chino Hills" so you can jump into local conversations.See you around the forums!

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They now consider that my partner has no cause for a hardship exception and, with the rental cap met, they are not entertaining requests to rent - the rental wait list is about 1 year.We are preparing an appeal to the members of the board since according to the declaration, the decision ultimately rest with them, but we are not optimistic about the prospects of them deciding this in our favor.

I got a great deal ultimately and I was pleasantly surprised after closing that the property had been cleared of all trash. 

This goes hand in hand with finding your ultimate buyer - if you shop the deal around and find that your buyers don't like it at that price, that's when you go back and say "our inspection revealed more issues than we were aware of", etc.Last - you don't give the seller the earnest money.  

just fyi- I already rent Brandon Turner's ultimate guide to finding renters.

Make sure you read the ultimate beginner's guide and search for any questions you may have and if you can't find the answer just ask away.