If you have the property under contract it is important that your knows your intentions in my case they know a general statement, "I am and investors who acquires properties either to hold or to flip and in the process I just so happen to help people in urgent need to sell quick".

Currently the neighbor hood is selling for around $300,000.

Acquiring these properties allowed the mission to continue which was more valuable than trying to make a deal on the front end.More to the investing side, if it doesn't eat any hay, it's marketable as to location and basic condition, insurable and can cash flow worth the time even at a break-even, buy it!

A good thing about renting in the "hood" is that I know everything that goes on in and around my building.

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.