I'm reading up on several books on the hold strategy and everything I can find online.

I hope there’s no one working who’d be dumb enough to bad mouth their boss on a blog, but you never know. Read this and just picture the auditorium of kids sweating bullets over the thought of what’s on their MySpace ...

What’s a fair ballpark figure for a real estate attorney to charge for supervising my process of finding a tenant; over looking the section 8 contract and my own lease contract/documentations with the tenant; I’ll be using the online tools for application, credit report / background check and customized lease contract.

But the best school anyone can go to is the school of hard knocks.3) This comes from my education at HKU (hard knocks university) It is better to practice on rental property than your own property...

Applicants having a real estate broker license in another jurisdiction may be allowed two education credits for each full year of active practice during the preceding ten year period.

Keep your repair receipts to justify mark up on home.read this...Seller Seasoning:Seasoning <90> 90 days but < 12 months, a second appraisal may be required if the re-sale price is 5% or greater than the lowest sales price of the property within the past 12 months.Property flipping is a practice where recently acquired property is re-sold for a considerable profit with an artificially inflated value, and is ineligible for FHAAlso attatched is guidelines for FHA loans Hope this helps

My dept. is currently battling with an FHA rep. who will not approve an FHA loan on an REO we have for sale because he is classifying our practice of liquidating REOs as "Flipping".We recently aquired a portfolio of NPAs from Lehman Bros to service.

An attorney is exempt as long as the attorney is not affiliated with the company doing the work (i.e. an attorney in the practice of law would be exempt, not an attorney hired by the company to skirt this exemption).

This will take about two years or so of solid practice and work.

I do anything from networking online, planning out my farming routes to finding more REI networking events to attend.