I've done some investment sales but mainly I do commerical leasing handling site selection for national retailers.

Not to mention the financial rewards (their RE portfolio must be worth at least $50 million).Taking her advice, I joined a local real estate club (CFRI) and within the next three years I hope to quit my corporate job and flip, rehab, and rent property full-time.

Gents...There are plently of NOO financing programs available for foreign nationals...LTV's as high as 80 depending how you document your income/assets...Hard money program will go as high as 90 LTV...I would need to know the specific status (permanent resident alien, non-permanent resident alien, etc.), to further quantify what is available.Regards,Scott Miller

That's about the national average appreciation for property.

He then wrote everyone's name on the board with two columns showing the design of card, and LAST YEAR'S EARNINGS.No one in the top 10-AVERAGE income $120K (this was in about '91 or '92) had anything other than the plain-black print, corporate logo in blue-card.

First National Bank of Marin - 6 mths post - low 600's - $300 unsecured - www.fnbmarin.coma word of advice from someone who trashed thier credit and is still paying for it.

Never own your investment property as a C-corporation because that will expose you to double taxation.

Generally speaking, home pricing on a national basis has done more flattening then falling.

In the case of many franchises, it is not the corporation that is signing the lease, but the franchisee.

Welcome to the new world, it's called verification---something being taken quite seriously these days (in the wake of the national statistics on foreclosures and loan buyback issues that flatlined 60+ lenders)...Your past full doc experiences are now irrelevent---the game has new rules...