i.e questions to ask, how I can be valuable to him?

I've been meaning to get back into it as another investing option.My advice on the MBA is to scrap it unless you want to advance your current career, or you think you will learn valuable skills.

Can you work in RE with bad credit, yes, but it is more difficult and it will limit your opportunities in many aspects of trying to do business.Are you good with people, can you approach a college professor and speak to him and gain his trust in what you are saying or do you have difficulties and only work orcommunicate well with just certain people, then do those certain peopleneed a property or own property to sell?

I own a home improvement business and being a general contractor, my time and that of my team is extremely valuable.

Just relocated from North Carolina and looking to gain some knowledge on no money options for RE investing.

First, I'm not a tax professional, but I've spoken with lots of them, and this is my take...If you're treating flips as capital gains, you're illegally evading taxes.

If you buy right, you'll capture the gain then, assuming external forces don't wreck it.

Knowing how to read people is a very valuable skill which is mostly learned on the job.

Google it, and the 1st link from office.mircosoft.com should be the template you need.3. for the Excel spreadsheet, think of time progressing downwards; the further down in the rows you are, the further through the months4. to map each property, give each one 5 columns {Month #, Mortgage Balance, Principal, Interest, Additional Payment} * that is the month you're on in your repayment to the bank (1-360) * balance due to the bank * that month's principal payment (this is why it's handy to have the amortiation worksheet) * interest for that month * and what additional payments you'll kick in from the other properties.5. when adding a new property to the sheet, just list the following as headers so you can add them into your equations {purchase price, down payment, P&I, cashflow when mortgaged, cashflow when paid-off}.6. to make this all work, you take an iterative process * start by charting your 1st and only property, and plot it out so it takes 360 months to pay off * add in your 2nd property, and add its cashflow to the "additional payments" on you 1st (or have your 1st property's cashflow pushed into your 2nd .. whatever you like) * keep doing this up to your 15th (or in my spreadsheet's case, my 5th property)Some insights I've gained:* the snowball effect works!

If you're primary focus is capital growth (what I call appreciation potential), then you'll want to focus on more cyclical markets where you can get a positive cash flow but stand to gain more on the "back-end".In both cases above, you'll want to stick to markets that have a sound economy and a healthy housing market.