Speaking of wholesale, many of my commercial deals were acquiring an interest or option and reselling the whole entity.

My long term goal is to use my construction experience to fix and flip for myself and others to acquire the funds necessary to purchase buy and hold or fix and hold properties.

Hi - I would like to acquire a property, but am short $20-30K for the downpayment.

I think about it this way, for every new investment property I acquire under my criteria that is one more day per month for the rest of my life that I don't have to work!

So needless to say I am in a position to acquire a loan for around 2.5% for 24/mo because the hard loan company knows i am good for it and the investment company just wants to try and recoup their initial investment at this point.

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??