Your inexperience may be showing through and causing the real estate agent not to have confidence in you.

Only recently have I fulled delved into my studies and feel confident enough to go out and purchase my first home.

Do you think homeowners and investors may be slightly disillusioned in their "consumer confidence" due to the high headline gains?..

I do have a person that travels across the country although I am sure you can find someone local.Residential is not the same as commercial.

To buy this you have to be confident in your pro-forma numbers or else your not really buying it on that high of a cap rate.

Right now reading different blogs has given me more and more confidence to buy a property but only thing I like to have a mentor to guide me alongside the way.

I would like to get a couple of recommendations on reliable, but reasonable, property management firms as I will be traveling and not available at a moments notice for issues that might arise.

I think if its the right relationship it can foster into a really positive relationship where either member can bring a deal to the table, a partnership can be agreed upon, and the confidence that the deal will work will develop.There's my 2 cents.

You lender needs to have some confidence that his/her money is safe also in case the place burns down.

Just make sure your confident in your rationale for the valuation that you made.