Ken Rishel your newsletter has been educational to me and, as you know there is a lot more to compliance than just the SAFE Act.

This is mostly due I believe, to the 60M high school, and 23M other improvements in educational structures and purchases they made in the last 3 years, and a few other improvements to a sprawling community 30-45 minutes outside of a large urban area.

I'm wanting to educate myself on how to get investors and really get started in the real estate biz.

Advantages: Knowing about market changes immediately, paying half a commission on sales, earning a commission when buying, looking up expired listings of the home before attending an auction, control of how your houses look on the MLS, looking at properties on your timetable, not your agent's.Disadvantages: Attending required continuing education classes (some are actually useful though).

Maybe someone could provide some insight and educate me about them.It is my understanding that if I have say $100k, I can use it as collateral to secure say a $300k loan (leverage percentages are just examples and could vary vastly).

Note the concept of equity applied as a credit to the borrower after the sale, it goes further by allowing a borrower to show the FMV over proceeds obtained at a public sale. :)

If direct mail, or you sending to the actual owner, via public records?

Hi,I'm looking to invest in real estate in and arround Geneva, in Switzerland, so I'm doing my education and BiggerPockets.com was refered to in a lot of blogs talking about real estat...Reading your posts on blogs and forums I fount a lot of very interesting informations but I have a lot of difficulties to migrate theses infos back to Geneva and my local market who is completly different from what I see in your posts...So I'm registring to ask some questions and see if I can get some good advices.Beffa V.

We are on the french border and arround 200k french ppl cross the border everyday to work in Geneva.On the housing front, only 17% of the ppl are house owners, most of the houses are owned by private and public pensions funds.

The only time the bank took so long with one of my offers on a highest and best, I only found out it sold when it hit the public records as sold, for thousands less than my offer, which really baked my noodle.