The other alternative is to "rough it out" on mls listing with bid wars in which I tend to avoid.

Many investors are using private money now as hard money is a dying breed in this credit crunch era but Trans funding is a valuable alternative for the wholesaler.

Another cost effective alternative.

This is a decision that you will take considering your alternative investment options, the risk of the specific investment and, frankly, what you think you ought to get in order to motivate you to do the deal.

An alternative that we have talked about is a Master Option agreement, which I'm not very familiar with.

Another alternative is to use transactional financing.

Alternate I buy a property in rural area, this is cheaper but under 150k Euro no way (with 3-4 units).In Ohio and the US I find many better propertys, the only prob is as foreigner to find a lender.

That said, buy and hold is not the only strategy available and as such, CA does offer many other alternatives.

He host bootcamp events for the purpose of selling his system and his countless associates of gurus and coaches.He sells his short sale coaching system 50% of the time if not more pitching during his boot camp.

When these tenants move out I can command 1400-1500 on that one.Im not looking for a definitive answer, but definately appreciate any ideas as I have just started thinking about alternatives to the current situation.Thanks Jon