Having these guys on your side is extremly helpful as an investor.Welcome to the site, and please ask anything you're curious about.

It would be extremly difficult to give you any advice if you don't know what kind of returns you're looking for, and under what time-span.

As a result, my friends, family, and clients are getting crappy service and that gets attached to my credibility.I basically don't trust any of the services I am aware of that claim to provide or source out "qualified referrals" because there is no incentive for those third party services to provide a good quality service to someone who isn't a repeat customer (listing agents, home sellers, and buyers aren't repeat customers for them...the business model doesn't encourage repeat customers).

Would this work if Joe Buyer took a property subject 2 in a Land Trust ?

If you can trust your subs, then have them purchase the materials, otherwise get the materials for them and just pay for the labor.

I am a loan officer in Sacramento looking to invest into trusts and Tax Sales.

Realtors usually send extremly watered down property profiles, and keep the broker detailed reports for themselves.Either way, until there is some other site that is a reasonable competitor to the MLS, it is unlikely that investors and everyday people will be able to access information on properties for sale.

I'm extremly pleased with the dialog that has been taking place here.

You can either go short the home builders like Toll Brothers or St Joe or you can short a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) or ETF.Going short is highly risky and with REITs or ETFs, you may also be stuck with paying high dividends is you hold your short position for a long time.

I've also made another "acquisition", a real estate attorney that I think I can trust.