We had to rent for a while, ourselves, with our 75-lb lab and found that this market is sorely needed and tenants will stay longer if they have less choice in moving.

Your choice if you want to use that as part of your criteria.

The thought suddenly occurs to me: When driving for dollars and you find a run down house, is it beneficial to send a copy of the picture of the home to the owner?

Depending on the type of land and how they hold the land, it may be beneficial for them to actually develop the land themselves with respect to taxes and capital gains {there is a lifetime capital gains exemption for disposition of CCPC shares in an active corporation and for agricultural land ... you or they should determine if either could be apply, or be made to apply, here.

One that I believe was very beneficial was median income to median home price.

You have two choices in order to pay down that debt.

Hi @Alexander Felice welcome to BP.I believe only wholersaling is a mistake for REIs,you should be in the"I will buy or lease your house fast business", or"I will solve your home problem business"solving problems and offering a couple of choices to the home seller, like all cash, or owner financing, or lease option then assign, is a good business plan.See my BP blog for some sales ideas.http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/3-reiskills-and-brian-gibbonsAnd welcome to BP!

Would that be beneficial?

We don't see this kind of content around here very often so I thought I'd bump it and see if we can shake out some more input.There are, of course, loans that are beneficial to you if you buy intending to occupy 50% or more with your own business.Moving back to commercial from residential can be tricky even with satisfying code questions about, say, parking.

Its all they have down here so a moajority of us floridians have no choice.