Hey guys, I got an email recommendation from Amazon about a book called "Fixing and Flipping Real Estate: Strategies For A Post-Boom Era" by author Marty Boardman.Has anyone read it?

Certainly you can look to his payment history or the real balance and see if it has started.

See if you can pull up the sales history or pull the PRC(property record card).

I have cleared cache, cookies, history, reboot and nothing seems to work.Thanks( I use FireFox if that helps)

Several issues.That agent should not have been showing that property or even step foot on it without having a consent to show in hand, a written authorization.

Like any other real estate situation you can verify what happened by looking at the history of the deeds.

And @Dion DePaoli any lease arrangement that facilitates any sale, conveying an equitable interest and having any payments structured toward a purchase price is a financing arrangement and the use of any quit claim deed will have the same issues as other installment sales or note and deed of trust.I'd say the CFD would be something for history buffs, but no attorney should be doing these any more, regardless if they have the authority to or not, they need to move on to a note and deed of trust or same under a Sub-2.I've had more than one attorney tell me that, after pointing out financing and contract issues with CFDs, they would simply stop doing them.

Doing this with strangers mean I can set the house rules, get signed leases, check their rental history, etc.

Look at rental inventories too, market rents, the public housing authority will have figures, or should have.

Its a guy I've known for probably 20 years....he's never had a steady work history....always been a paycheck-to-paycheck kind of guy......probably the last person I'd think to ask about investing or lending.So after we get finished catching up, we're walking to our cars and he asks "how's your rental property business going?".