Heck, even with perfect credit and great income, its still incredibly difficult to continue growing your portfolio these days.

Perhaps you've found a contractor or two by now, but someone I'd recommend who is incredibly reasonable is Harry Campbell with H.

When the class advances to out of the box techniques I can take you there and beyond, so far, we're having a hard time getting past the basics.

That has significant risk but is a technique people use in cases like this.The best route is just to get a new loan.

Have closed 4 deals in the last 45 days and looking to ramp up buying machine but need a realtor that doesn't mind working with creative techniques.

From what I've read this far it seems as though people are finding good investment properties on the MLS, via direct mail and other marketing techniques, as well as word of mouth (possibly from reo agents).

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Wealth people use this technique all the time with works of art.

They are not teaching obsolete techniques.

Chris, Ray is absolutely correct.In addition to that, I would say that trying to see 15 properties in a single day is incredibly counterproductive.