:)In all seriousness, you want to start asking your professional friends (high income earners such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc) and your older friends (those who might have retirement funds they aren't yet using), and see who is looking for a better return on the cash they have sitting around.Then pitch your *low-risk* opportunity (explain how it's secured by real estate worth a lot more than what you're borrowing) and see if they're interested.

And further, what about a wiki for the consumer to crowd source not just the hiring of but in effect turning the whole WIKI into a population of knowledgeable people working in collaboration with you?

Originally posted by Jon Rood:...if I run my business poorly, do you think they will give me a loan......nope.....what I do get to do is pay an effective tax rate of about 50%-60%.

So, using your approach, to create a target list either:1) match obits to owners and contact the relatives, or2) research court records of open estates containing real estateYour marketing will be more effective if you create your USP's around specific problems that you are willing and prepared to resolve, in return for a trade off Blythe estate PR.

There are some effective homemade solutions for dealing with this problem.

Cumbersome, but effective.

You have no idea what chemicals were in such flooded waters, how they will effect materials even if they appear clean since wood can absorb chemicals and dry out, like petrolium products.While some of this may not be a problem for the seller, it can increase liability issues especially if not disclosed.

Spoke with the lawyer, Because there are still married I need to have her sign the agreement for sale also, even though she is not on title.

So that would in effect meet my goal 4 years ahead of schedule.

I started doing this per my lawyer's advice.