Ultimately he came down to $525k, whereupon I told seller that I wanted to think about it before offering $500k at which point the deal was dead.My questions are as follows:1) I was very conscious of the price point.

The answer I got was they have internal protocols they follow, and when it's time for them to sell at auction, they sell it at auction, not before.

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I go through all of the questions & quickly toss the responses to each of them in one mass email for all to see as to avoid a continuous never ending wave of follow up responses.

When looking for a custodian I think the following 3 things are important when choosing a custodian for your IRA.

The discontinued BT3000 I have, bought 20 years ago, has a cult following.

I have been looking up a lot of properties and finally, I am expecting to put 1 property under a contract very soon and I would like to know about your experiences on how I can manage my first rental in the most effective way in term of the following:1.

@Ian Ray Not sure if you plan to hold all 3 but it depends on the deal structure and that we can see the numbers on a BiggerPockets calculator for example.So what would help us all here in analyzing this deal without disclosing the address is to provide the following to the Potential Partner.Number of units?

My former residence (a condo) has the following monthly financials:$55.00 Tax - County (until Jan 1, 2018, then $133)$39.58 Insurance$74.32 PMI3.375% APRGreenville, SC 29615I purchased it for $82,500 in Oct 2012.