One of the basic tenets of real estate contract law (I believe in every state) is that unless there is a binding agreement (all parties signed and received), there's no official agreement.

I'm also trusted more by neighbors as an agent with an official business card vs. a 'greedy investor' who may be breaking into the property.The same could be said for my interaction with the folks down at city hall.

Hi People i'm from Cuba and my fist language is Spanish..but here is where everybody know what is what we are talking about it ...I'm glad to find this site ...thanks ..

Been looking on the boards for a couple months now and a week or two as an official member, and was looking for some advice on mortgage options.

Im currently working in Dominican Republic now, because of the language barrier, im not too sure how to find a good deal here.

I formed an LLC which was officially assigned an EIN by the IRS today, and I will be working with a private lender to finance my first purchase.

JoeI guess you will not be there as there are not going to be any government officials there and the charge is $600.00 to TMHA.

No doubt, you've seen these guys around the site and have been really really active in the forums for a long time, so it's just natural that we make it official!

"They are operated extra-legally or illegally, but the city has bigger things to worry about than going after someone raising a few chickens," she said.Kirk Mayes of the Brightmoor Alliance, in one of the city's poorest areas, says there are 200 community gardens in Brightmoor alone.As farming is imagined for Detroit's future, abandoned land would provide fruit and vegetables to the city's inhabitants, for whom fresh food is often not accessible because grocery stores are few and far between.City and county officials have no hard figures on the number of empty plots and abandoned homes, and estimates vary wildly, going as high as 100,000.

That ended up being my first official RE investment!