Our civic leaders have worked vigorously to make that happen and have been extremely successful in getting the right people involved in a very short amount of time.

Ordinarily, notwithstanding the common advice to start with a single family property, my preference is to acquire a fourplex, triplex, or duplex (in that order).

I've got a friend in the business, who doesn't really cut me any breaks, he knows he can "slip" my job if a bigger one comes up, and most important he doesn't have to charge me the FULL SLAB, as long as I use a very common granite!

Focusing on commonality and how a deal will benefit them always helps.

I use a title company that I love and will not use another unless circumstances are extreme.

If it is then I would try it.In reference to is it bad business, I would say that it is very common.

They aren't illegal, but they come with numerous very specific and strenuous parameters to keep from being classified as an executory contract (contract for deed) in Texas, and as an executory contract, be liable for some extreme penalties (up to $250 per day liability from the day of sale).Now you can do 1 lease option per year and not have to worry about being liable for more than $100 per infraction, which at the most would be about $1,000.

:wink: i love that word - "lurk" - it's a very common word used on this site.

This looked like a right category for it...I have to get this out of my system…I am a married woman (27) with two young children (6 and 2).I like all this real estate industry, starting from interior and landscape design finishing with rehabbing...Couple years ago we had extremely bad job transition (my husband retired from US Army, and it turned out that many years of management experience are not valuable to anyone, so he had tough time finding a job.

This is more a higher end kind of investment, with carefully thought out design (not just mixmatched furniture or things you might find in a hotel or something).I'm sure this is common and there is probably an official term that is used when referring to it.