Any thoughts on a strategy to first get a broker to welcome me in the somewhat small world of commercial agents, or start an investment group to acquire and manage retail properties.

I did want to go thru some of the steps to be prepared for acquiring portfolios in the future.I'm thinking I should slice and dice the data to look at:Counts and cap rate by city, by property manager, and by product (2/1,...)Cash flow over time and CAPMBPOs?

I just never seemed to have enough money, knowledge, connections, lending ability, experience, too young etc. etc I was acquiring information but failing to actually do anything with it and failing to seek out and develop my "Unfair Advantage" as Brandon Turner so aptly puts it.

If you want to accumulate as many properties as possible, realize that acquiring rental properties is like a domino effect.

got a question. lets say you purchase a tax lien, and before the property is redeemed or you acquire it thru quiet title, what happens if the house is burned down or damaged by the current owner or someone else??

In 3 years, I've acquired 4 more, and my credit has dipped with each loan, and is now at 710.

Have a house in our neighborhood that my wife and I would love to acquire so that we could do the fix and flip.

I acquired both of these properties this year so I haven't owned them long.Does anyone have suggestions for obtaining financing (specifically financing with houses as collateral) to move forward in rehabbing and flipping properties and acquiring rental properties?

But I have come to my first snag..Im not exactly sure how to go about acquiring/financing the deal.

What do you think or know about acquiring a bank loan to consolidate debt ?