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After these initial goals are accomplished, then I am able to set the bar even higher and go up from there.I read the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to REI a few times and have a fairly good understanding of the basics, which leads to believe that my goals can be accomplished a few ways.My question is: What would be the best way to go about it?

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You have pick an excellent community to help guide you to become a successful investor.  

Automatic tow contracts can cause you more headaches and are not customer friendly, so try to avoid those.The more people that live in close proximity to one another, the more the potential for drama.

In my opinion I'm guided by what I acquired the property for, the carrying costs and what I might be able to sell it for.  

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I have been going back and forth and hesitating on when putting up my first post but as written in The Ultimate Beginners Guide "I never worry about action, but only inaction" is a rule that I want to learn and live by.  

So I can call customer service and in 3 minutes get a complete verbal date down on the phone.. it helps in real time when your working foreclosure stuff.Also any agent can call customer service and get copy of last recorded deed the tax info zoning etc.. sent over in a matter of minutes... out east when its kind of backwards form what I have experienced were you open an order and they don't order title to the end as you have to actually pay an abstractor to go to the courthouse I guess and physically pull data... so this leads to title issues at the end of the transaction were out here we have title within as I said 72 hours max of opening the order so you know up front if you have an issue and you have the whole contract period to work on it if need be.