He's also a good family man and active in his church (I'm not religious but I can appreciate folks who have a strong sense of spirituality in what they do).So we decided to form a partnership, my first long term business relationship in about 8-9 years.

You never know when one is in a flood zone..The known flood zones are published:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=FEMA+flood+zone+map&safe=active

Why your accountant would change passive income from rentals to active employee income doesn't seem to make sense to me.

You can go onto the website socalmls.com and input the name of the city, on left side, scroll down, and check the box for active and solds, then do a search.

The next level generally has the liberty to consider lower offers.If it is just a matter of your writing a full price offer the day it hit the market, it can be as simple as the REO requiring it be active for 7 days before response.

if the land has really doubled in value, the lender would do better to take back the property sell himself...maybe that sounds like a hassle, but i know of a hardmoney lender who preys on borrowers and does better when they default...sell the whole property and it sounds like you made money...now, he may do some sort of a release, if you ask him and an attorney..just depends on how active he is in realestate, aware he is about the values and the opportunities, and how nice he is :)

Just get you started ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Maybe search for threads on @Steve BabiakHe from Pennsylvania and active member of B.P.

I liked my static company page.What I'm not looking forward to is someone clicking on my company's "updates" tab, not seeing much activity there and deciding no one's home.

In the state of Maryland there are only three entities that are legally allowed to negotiate on behalf of a homeowner: (1) a realtor or broker who is conducting activities that are incidental to their license.

Another thing you might consider is to find a local real estate group to join and learn first hand from those actively involved in deals.