Anyone have recommendations for gathering general economic data, things like stock performance in past years, job growth in different places, REIT or syndication performance.

You can be sued for specific performance, or you could be sued for damages if the eventual sales price of the property is lower than your contract price. 

In the medium to long term I think it will benefit note investors by increasing the supply of non-performing notes.

This summer, see if you can get in with a property management  company running errands and doing some of the dull office tasks.

You just have to be careful how you assign and manage tasks.

Those of us holding re-performing and sub-performing loans will be at risk, again not the banks.This time, the Federal Reserve and the federal government are rolling everything that they've got to make the transition from crisis to recession as smooth as it can.

Real estate is considered an essential service like banking and agents as well as appraisers and inspectors are permitted to continue to perform their jobs, of course with extreme care and caution to prevent infections.

When your properties are performing well, leverage is amazing, but when rents or prices fall drastically, not so much.

Digging a bit deeper here, perhaps you can help me get an understanding of what you've got going on......You've got this reply explaining to me how easy it is to make money and how you're able to do this on the side with your 12 hour days at the day job......But you started the thread with questions on how to actually perform a double closing and get into transactions without proof of funds.

I am going through an FHA loan partnered with Rhode Island Housing, so I expected it to take a while, but i got news yesterday that the appraisal was just performed, just waiting on the report.