Get a reputable pest/termite company to treat and maintain a termite bond.Unless there is significant framing damage, remediation is generally localized and not a big deal (in my experience).

It will just minimize the number of offers you can make it parallel but that's always risky as not closing on accepted offers damages your reputation.

Wow.Can not believe so many members and so few post here.I myself, have not read the introduction until today, honestly I do not think I would have appreciated it as much if not being more involved as of late.The read was highly valuable, it should extend beyond BP, more business should be modeled after some of the writing, providing value, promoting integrity, and making your reputation in the community worth wile and trustworthy. 

If you answer no when you should have answered yes, you'll likely find it very hard to sell your house, and worst case, you'll have the county coming after you.There are always ways to cut corners in this business (like not pulling permits when you should), but that's how you get a bad reputation, and it makes staying in business that much more difficult.Why don't you put together a detailed list of renovation tasks you plan to undertake and list them here.

I also start showing the apartment while they are still living in it.In almost every case, it was not a tenant trying to avoid paying for damages, rather a tenant trying to come up with the down payment for their next apartment/house before moving day.In the rare case that it was a tenant trying to avoid paying for damages - this type of tenant does not usually care about credit, reputation, threats of eviction, etc.

Who provides the best training, provides the best support, allows you to participate in referrals, who puts you in your market with the better reputation, who provides assistance when you get in over your head????

I've been told that I will ruin my reputation if I put in multiple offers on different short sales and then back out of some of them because an REO comes along or one short sale gets approved before the others, and that I'm screwing over the seller because they may lose their house if I back out.

RE Brokers,good ones, have a reputation to uphold which is worth much more than a law suit or threats of one.

The charge of "fraud" is highly inflammatory & there's nowhere to "pick up" your reputation even in the unlikely event you "win".

Please connect with me if you know of reputable lenders or partners that I could work with and do a split of the profits.