With that kind of cash you could easily afford to buy into a REIT, or some other profit generating real estate investment, however with that said there is some risk there, you may loose that money.

HE JUSY WANTS TO DEAL WITH ONE PERSON SO IF HE GOES UNDER CONTRACT WITH ME HE WANTS TO SIGN THE DEED TO ME,SO, IT LOOKS LIKE I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE 2 CLOSINGS, WOULD THAT NOT CUT IN TO MY PROFIT?

If you should wind up getting more then you just have more profit. 8)

What I'm trying to find out is whats the most profitable way to go about it with my current situation.

The 30% reduction includes closing costs, carrying costs, utilities and miscellaneous items including the end buyers profit.

It is much more profitable dealing directly with the homeowner.

Subject to is a viable & profitable startegy for RE investing, however, a great deal of "desperate sellers" today are desperate because they have terrible arm loans or neg am, or high interest rate loans.

Almost seems to good to be true in this market to invest in a REO portfolio, get most of my money back in 2 yrs, get the tax benefits during the holding period and still get any profits from the gains in 5-7 years.Am I allowed to post the website here?

:goofy: This is one of the reasons why I wonder/question how profitable it is to buy the units you have.

But, there are still a few things related to real estate that need to be sorted out like how do the profits build up, what are the ways to go about this….and some more.