I recently attended a RE meetup event and the speaker emphasized treating real estate investments as cold, number-driven investments and actually suggested buying properties physically far away from the investor is one way to control for this to ensure that investment decisions are made dispassionately.

I have been a home owner in Middlesex County since 2012, and I recently made the decision that I wanted to take control...

In most businesses that allow customers to make monthly payments, furniture and appliances for example, no dollar amount owed is too small not to warrant a letter from their lawyer threatening court action.

Definitely the best investment I've ever made.

Hello @Gina Jackson - I too made excuses for a full decade before I made up my mind to proceed with REI, and things have been great and moved quickly since then.

There's a good deal of money to be made in the specialty by the way.

So your first deal if you made 50k then you can keep it all for example as you have already paid 25k.People do not either have the money or they do not want to put themselves out there with equity in their house etc.Part of being successful is letting go and going for it.

If nothing other than you think you made a great buy if I were the appraiser on the refinance I would argue that market price was what you paid.

@Ryan EllisI'm curious to know where you learned thisWholesaling lease options or lease option assignments should be done on an option release system First step is you enter into a lease an option with the seller with a letter of intent to sell your interest in the paperwork (or if an agent enter into a listing agreement for lease option)Instead of assigning the deal, you have the tenant buyer place 3% of value of the property in escrow made payable to a title co.You have the seller and the tenant buyer sign off that it's agreed that the 3% is a option release paid to youA new lease and option is created between the seller and tenant buyer (with no large option consideration)You could discount the house value by 3%Use a collection co to take rent and pay underlying note and mortgageHave tenant buyer go to bank and save 3% for downpaymentI would be licensed in FL as you are brokering.

I haven't yet made the decision to sell but I would like to know if there is a time of year that is better to sell-i.e.