As a preliminary screening tool, in this area I use the "one percent rule, which means that a good cash flowing rental will bring at least 1% of its total value each month.For me, the golden years in this area were 2010 through early 2013.

With respect to LifeStyles, I'll need to investigate further...

Private Investigator... may be id theft involved.

The following examples of mortgage and real estate fraud investigations are written from public record documents on file in the court records in the judicial district in which the cases were prosecuted.Defendant Sentenced in Connection with Mortgage Fraud SchemeOn August 5, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Keith Nelson Cook, of Emmett, Idaho, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $1,905,651 in restitution to victims of his fraud scheme.

it goes with out saying that you should investigate the sponsor and do you own due diligence on the sponsor and property.

After reading about an orgy the police broke up, (in the local community paper,) I went to investigate.

This is how some of my investing is done, however we also want a portfolio of rentals and I wanted to investigate this one as a possibility.I'm going to drive by the house today while I am working to check out the area, but I may let this one go and wait for something a bit nicer, something I would be happy to live in I guess.

That how it all starts with any SEC investigation and fine.

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You can run your financial situation by a few lenders to see if they're okay with at a preliminary level, lending you money... but unlike residential, very few commercial lenders issue the popular "pre-approval" letter... because once again, they qualify the property first and the borrower second.