I don't see warming up someone on their facebook acct or their following your twitter acct. with them eventually buying a home.Now if you are guru wanna be and your are selling a digital product then I think have at it.Like I said our focus is several local blogs on real estate news and market information using some high response offers to build a list of retail buyers of properties we are selling.We will try to see if we can generate investors as well off the blogs, but we expect to use the more traditional marketing strategies for building our list of ready to go investors.Now perhaps a small forum or membership group might be a model that works in a local market--folks pay to get some cost effective coaching, and access to resources etc.

Or are you using some other model to get to the value.illustration:DuplexScheduled mo.Rental Inc $2,000Less Vacancy 5% 100Less: Other Op.

I have a single wide park model in AZ on a golf course .

You have to realize the business model whether he or any of 'them' will admit is to UPSELL you into a more expensive product.

Well, let's see.....I think he has a nice smile.I suspect that it is good for the black community to have a male role model who heads a family unit and treats his wife and children with respect (But, I am actually guessing, since I am not African American myself).And.... wait, I'm thinking.

You guys might file for bankruptcy the same way most other companies do when they are unable to pay their bills.In my opinion, the business model itself is not a bad one but I think this business, like any other, can only work in the long run on a large scale if you are able to offer honest good value to your clients.

Even though I think it's Buffet who said that diversification isn't always the best investment model, I feel for most investors it might be.. what's everyone's opinion on this

As I see it, there are basically 3 business flip models: - Virtual Wholesaling/flipping contracts/contract assingment - no cash needed- Short Sale/REOs - using a double escrow and transactional funding- Bulk REOs - using hedge fund financing, hard, or private funds Although the web is besieged with tons of sites to gurus pitching their programs for their various programs, courses, boot camps and the like, I believe there are also some very well-respected "real" investors doing actually these deals and profiting.

Our business model is to not take the property if possible.

I use a discounted cash flow model when analyzing a buy and hold property.