mistake in last post, I meant an equal percentage of REO properties

So as long as you dont over bid and are able to sell the properly quickly there is really not many more mistakes one could make correct?

You can learn from the experience and avoid the same mistakes on your next flip.It would be even better if you avoid thinking of exit strategies and do your homework carefully so that you would not have to sell at a loss.

Things don't work ideally whether govt is involved or not involved because we are people and people make mistakes and are motivated by things like greed, jealously, avarice.

My first one I made some mistakes and only walked away with about $3500.

But I see what he's getting at now, and yeah a totally hands off marketing campaign that ran itself would be the bee's knees.Sorry for the mistake Dan, I'll definately make a note to put more thought into my actions on the forums.Some of these answers are great, can we get more into what a marketing campaign means to you?

In 2005 I bought a pre-foreclosure house but made the mistake of trying to do the repairs myself.

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So here I am, got started before I found all of this great inpho so yep I made a good mistake and got some knots on my head.

Or a large number of "for rent" or "first month free" signs in the area.Make you first deal especially lucrative to make up for the mistakes you'll inevitably make.