Those townhouses give us a fairly good income and my parent told me that we don't have to pay any expenses - i.e. electricity, heating, water, etcs.

I'm not going to overpay just because the seller wishes they could get more out of the property.I am an investor and as such I pay a fair price for the verifiable cash flow a property generates.

The lender has requested that I maintain the status as "Active" in the MLS.

Where I live now most properties seem to sell for around 100 times the fair monthly market rent to a shade below that (example- 100k duplex with 500 per side monthly market rents).

In all fairness, I think those of us on the right should step back and remove ourselves from the equation.

For plain text SMS, there are ways to keep the costs down, but when you're looking to send images out in a mass message without the end-user initiating the session, you could be looking at some fairly steep fees from the wireless providers as well as registration fees with your state/federal telecom regulatory agencies (In the thousands of $ in monthly fees).This is actually the exact reason that I built seeinside.mobi the way I did, with the mission of keeping costs down for all parties concerned (agents as well as buyers) as well as to limit the amount of interference from regulatory bodies while avoiding local & international legal issues.

In fairness, there are two.

You have to keep at things and maintain focus at them.So pick something, and keep with it.

We both still maintain full time jobs, and do REI on the side.Since I wasn't happy with results I was getting from local Realtors in finding properties, I got my sales license.

Couldn't handle the rain anymore so moved to Sedona AZ.My son lives in Eugene and creates awesome custom property fliers and web site graphics for Realtors he said he has stayed fairly busy.