The shows make it sound soooo easy that any fool with some dough and credit thinks s/he can jump right into a flip, splash on some fresh paint and add shiney drawer pulls and make a fortune.I get bid out by these fools regularly and then watch those properties languish on the market for months at a time.

Banks are for "regular" people (AKA retail buyers)

We decided to just put in a normal offer using our regular bank.

Its been a while since I looked at that graph, and its been updated recently.

Your goal should be to seek tenants that have a history and reasonable expectation of stable, steady income so they can pay their bills regularly each month.

Several problems have occured to get where we are today, needless to say we still have the house on the market.Yesterday I received a call from my agent telling me that there is a couple, he is in the airforce, they are wanting to rent our house for 6 months while he is out on tour and then when he gets back they will use a VA loan to buy the house for the full listing price.I am not a mortgage specialist, but from what I was told through our agent is that after he gets back from this tour, he will then reconnect with his regular full time job, and will acquire a VA loan which supposedly he is already pre-qualified for.I have not done any lease options, but I have wanted to start looking into them, but wasn't prepared to do so with this house.

Fine, we can start conducting regular meetings & keeping minutes, but (& I realize this may not be completely kosher) is there some easy way to create "old" minutes?

It needs work as far as updates to cabinets, bathroom fixtures, and some paint, etc.

You will need an option agreement that gives the tenant the option to buy the house and then you will need the regular rental agreement.

We hope to have many children (I come from a family of 9 and she's the oldest of 8 ).I'm a Christian, and active in our local church (Sunday School teacher, bookkeeper, regular attendee, tithing member, etc.).That's a good place to start.