It took me from '78 to about '91 to start making any "real money" It took until '84 to realize that carrying debt was a fools game, and another 3 years of so to pay off my SMALLEST BALANCE mortgage.

Every few months my line is increased as I use the cards and pay off the balances.

The "price" you're agreeing to is the outstanding loan balance.

POF documents are typically prepared by banks and other financial institutions to verify the balance of funds in a particular bank account.

Tim, try getting more targeted with your marketing, like absentee owners with zero balance.

I believe Contract for Deeds are usually done with a balloon payment due in x number of years: The seller gets down payment, monthly payments, and the balloon payment (remaining balance) in say 7 years.

If I open an SDIRA, how much of the balance can be used for investing?  

Typically, the land owner does not have the experience or the balance sheet to develop a property themselves and thus why they are willing to give their land as their equity percentage into the deal.

Short sale, closing costs, commissions, etc)In the case of #2, all costs will be deducted from the sales proceeds, including the mortgage balance and the money left over goes to you.

I don't like having these men in and our of our house every week just to repair stuff that's going to be broken again later on because they don't know what they're doing.Examples of things that need to be fixed: Front door is falling off the hinges (it's already been fixed once after over a month of us asking for it to be fixed), the swamp cooler smells like mold and we requested the filter be changed, refrigerator door has about a quarter inch gap in the door and is leaking cold air, we can't use the fan in the enclosed porch because it's off balance and we've already had the glass light cover fall off and shatter on the floor right in front of me, and kitchen sink disposal rattles the entire counter when it's turned on.