Did you have an established relationship with the bank or did you have a substantial down payment?

You can advertise the website on your bandit signs instead of a #.There you can establish some trust with your potential sellers, plus you can get their info on the house they are looking to sell and call them back on your terms if it looks like a good deal.

We live in Sarasota Florida (Lakewood Ranch to be exact) and we are new to the RE investing game, but very well established as successful business owners.We have been in the Tax Liens end of RE investing for a few years and are now ready to take the plunge into making some REAL money!

And Section 204 (h)(4) says that a state can become eligible for federal funds to help implement the program by "adopting by statute or regulation a requirement that buildings be assessed and labeled, consistent with the labeling requirements of the program established under this section," or "adopting a plan to implement a model labeling program consistent with this section within one year of enactment of this Act, including the establishment of that program within 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and demonstrating continuous progress under that plan."

Tim:If you write an ebook I'll buy one.Or here's another angle: establish a storefront business, write the ebook and expand it into a How-To Manual, and then SELL IT ON TV.Just picture yourself on a late-night infomercial, sitting on your yacht, and sipping some Dom while you extol the virtues of easy riches.

ANYONE THAT IS COUNTING ON FUTURE APPRECIATION is taking a HUGE GAMBLE!

But those occupations all require training classes, licensing, and employment agreements with established institutions in order to get started.Now, maybe it’s just because many don’t understand that the word “broker†has several common definitions.

I think I'm with Luis here, I'm very uncomfortable gambling on future tax rates and the future structure of the tax code, and it is a gamble, make no mistake.

Thus, in my opinion the main reason to buy is for the CF, but there are others:RE is the only investment vehicle I know of that benefits from Leverage, meaning that we can control $100,000 with a down-payment of $30,000, or $20,000, or $5,000, or even $0 if we are very creative (welcome to my life :).RE is an inefficient market, meaning that we can negotiate deals that are infinitely better than the market-established value.

I'm just having a difficult time finding the hard and private money in order to establish real estate investing.