@Jon Klaus, I chose to become a broker because I wanted to learn real estate from the perspective of working with customers and with the hope that I could somewhat combine the two, investing and brokering.

You will have to sell to a cash buyer.This is not necessarily the case in your situation but it's good to have a wider prospective.

But with so many of the employees being 90-day "temps" (who actually are employed for years, but are fired on the 89th day and rehired on the 91st), the lack of customer service is understandable..

Buying Low Equity Deals - Buy on Sub2 or Lease Option then assignBuying Free and Clear - Owner Finance 100% of value, your termsBuying High Equity - Owner Finance-------------------Sell on Lease Option to good buyer prospects, 3% option fee.

My wife and I built custom homes in Birmingham, Alabama for about eight years, right up until the crash.

And when I do get a prospect with 5-7 k down they disappear, and the people who want it only have 1-2 k down and I am not going to do that!

Since it is not located within close distance of the beach (this is the first thing potential customers ask).I have also attempt to trade my "free and clear" house with another that is near the beach.

But we plan to sell this one in another year or so again to avoid high taxes but mean while we have been remodeling the house with money out of our pockets, we get our money back anyways so we don't mind doing a little bit at a time to the house almost everyday.It has been a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifice, a lot a lot of patience plus putting fun and having nice cars, nice clothing a lot of stuff people have aside to be able to have what we have now, but its all worth it because the best part is they have all been paid off in cash so we have no mortgages plus we get rental income coming in, but we are not stopping there we hope to continue to reach our goal which is having at least 10 rental properties and build our custom home by the time we are 55-60 years old we are now 37.

Your third party is someone who your client or prospect can identify with.

It may make some of your customers uncomfortable, as you have found out.