If any of you seasoned experts want to pay your success forward and kind of knock my plan apart as a means of instruction via PM, I'd appreciate it.In the future, I want to move into buying - rehabbing - selling homes and in the very long term into building a portfolio of rental properties.I've read on here that folks are buying lists of distress properties updated daily.

You never know what kind of "crazies" are out there.

For a while, sleezy investors were entering into this kind of deal and promising a profit split for people that would line up the financing to buy the house.

And what kind of inheritance does a child receive when Dad 'could've' helped out but didn't because 'he said I didn't deserve it?'

Travis - good for you, you're looking for the right kind of multifamily project.

That would be my first step. he will then work with section 8 in order to help the tenants buy the homesHave you done any kind of analysis on the houses as far as needed repairs?

I was driving out of town this past weekend and found a store called "Meier" - kind of like a Kmart.

It is illegal for the BK attorney to pay you for the leads or any kind of kickback.

I am interested in purchasing REO property in the area, and im trying to figure out where to start.How does one go about getting the jump on one of these kinds of deals?

In my brief time as a loan officer for a mortgage company, we usually wanted to see 2 years at a job, or at least 2 years in the same field.There used to be loan programs that would get around having to say what kind of job you have, but ever since the market has been going down guidelines have changed and its probably been about 6 months to a year since I have seen one work.