My purchase contracts states that the earnest money deposit is will be deposited with the title company upon execution of the contract.If the earnest money is nominal, say $100, do I need actually need to deposit with the title company?

This has attracted fans coming in for the weekend for the Texas Tech Red Raider football games and also executives seeking a monthly+ stay while making a business move. 

I am heavily involved on campus and I am the Executive Marketing Director for San Diego State's Real Estate Society and have been enjoying working with the members and executive board tremendously.

My goals include get 2 buildings or 4-6 units within 18 months and hopefully execute a brrrr strategy.  

Trying to soak up as much knowledge as possible while I get together the funds to execute my first investment.

They can be complicated and you absolutely MUST have a qualified intermediary in place before you execute any transactions - for a number of reasons.

I'm a full time investor here, mostly fix and flip, but executing the BRRR strategy on a small portfolio of houses I've acquired this past year.

Howard County Real Estate is certainly not cheap...

I sincerely applaud his effort and intention but there was no execution that I could see. 

The refurb will include structural so I’m assuming I would have to use the Standard 203(k), which has no price cap but limits you to a single contractor, six month deadline and requires inspections of all the workI’m guessing this would mean a much higher price tag for the refurb, and less flexibility around scheduling and execution of the workI am unsure whether a hard money lender would favor such a deal, but I would imagine that if we could secure a loan we would not be limited to using a single contractor and could get the job done for less.Exit StrategyIdeally, we would like to do a cash out refi after the refurb and roll the profits into the purchase of a multi-family.