Search out and find an investor friendly title agent/company and take all your closings there.

It's an oasis of truth in sandstorm of pie-in-the-sky, get-rich-quick, late-night-infomercial type stuff.I believe it will be out November 14th-- it's a must read for all investors, but especially those in the beginning or middle of their RE careers.Author is Mark Evans DM and it's ISBN-13: 978-0-9788170-0-8 and ISBN-10: 0-9788710-0-1Not sure what ISBN is or which # is which, but I know you can search for books by ISBN on a lot of sites and locations like Amazon, BN, and Borders.

Hard money loans have a specific purpose, and they work well for those circumstances.Do a forum search for hard money and read through some of the posts.

-Have you ever paid for a skip trace or search by an investigator for real estate investing purposes, if so how much?

I've searched but I keep getting a bunch of websites where they want you buy their sketchy infobooks.

Iwas searching for one when I came up on Biggerpockets.

I did a search and found this program.http://www.trumpuniversity.com/realestate/index.cfmHas anyone gone through it or have any info on the program personally.My 2nd Question:I read in a resent post that it was a good idea to take the real estate law of contracts class for real estate agents.

I have been searching and can only find information for purchase.

Hello, we are just getting our information together for a contracts package to possibly sell to investors.I wanted to know what's needed besides : equity purchase agreement, title search for liens, any negotiations with lenders...?????

lolGlad to see my little words are taken to heart by some of the guru's on the site.The thing I wanted to add to my quote is one word that looms in everyone's vocabulary, that is capable of killing EVERY deal you look at:[size=18][/size][b]COMPROMISE[size=12][/size] In my dealings, the first set of cost numbers I run are usually the highest AND most accurate (not saying they are realistic).Investors, and mostly new investors fall into the Compromise trap.The numbers don't look good, you take another look at what's involved in the deal and search for area's you can cut costs without any real basis for doing so.You say to yourself, "All I have to do to get my profit up is use less expensive materials and do some of the work myself so I will save on labor."