The man has screwed up on more than a few things (he's also done quite a few right in my opinion), but being that has it may, if I had to vote the last two elections over again, I'll still vote Bush into office.

I am quite new and plan to start investing in the near future and am curious how you found the 30% number, where I too can find this and other numbers of importance.

You CAN succeed, just don't quit on yourself before you have the chance...

I'm trying FSBO right now, since realtor fees would really eat into any gains I might expect to make to make on the property.

I think you can especially profit from it if you can lock in loan rates before the July 1 interest rate hike by the fed:http://www.1stmillionat33.com/2006/06/a-strategic-trade-in-this-housing-market/I know some of you are quite risk adverse, but all signs point to interest rates climbing for a long time to come.

I see quite a few them are under corporate entities and they buy it through tax deed sales like in California, Texas, etc.

All in all a great first book for real estate investors.Unfortunately the book lacks quite a few details that you need to actually DO real estate investing... but it is very inspirational all the same.

I spent quite some time there last year.You can probably get some aggressive financing from the local banks as well.100 CLTV!

You will make good contacts in your area and you will inevitably learn quite a lot from your investors.

Quite a few that were built within the last five years and often are close to new inside.