In order to be effective you have to have practical, relevant experience in the same kind of real estate investing as those you plan on teaching.

I hate being the low guy on the todem pole asking questions that probably should already be understood up to this point, but I need clarification on what seller/owner financing is and how it effects both the seller and the buyer and basically how it works?

For instance, if you lived in Gainesville, FL, your absentee owners would be getting your postcard and a letter from me, personally addressed and signed in blue ink.

I've found that most LLCs that I've looked at have been a revenue generator for an attorney rather than effective protection for the landlord.I never had an LLC for any of my properties, 16 SFHs at one time.

Two quick things: I never post details on the properties like street address or anything like that, and I never respond to the emails I get.

To renovate these houses wouldn't be cost effective.

I dont know if the value of anything that anyone owns is ever under their control..............but I think that the answer to the question on the topic is obvious....Developers are holding to property longer because of the overall institutional freeze on lending and credit markets, and the effect that it has had at the retail level.

That's been done away with for primary residences, but I think its still in effect for investment properties.A writeoff will affect your credit.

Click on the video in the link to get his thoughts.http://www.cnbc.com/id/26867866He talks about the dire situation effecting the credit markets last week and the consequences of doing nothing.

I think the only thing keeping the dollar afloat is the effect that this crisis is having on all the other countries out there.