Andrew, This site is a great place to get a ton of useful knowledge.

With an S election that allows you to claim some income as salary and the balance as distributions, on which you pay no Self Employment tax saving 15.3%If your tax adviser is not knowledgeable with these choices find one who is.

Getting paid, or paying someone outside of closing without the banks knowledge is mortgage fraud!

I have an extensive background in management and working with people.I am a newbie and looking for all available resources to grow my knowledge base.

Nothing like a little (or no) knowledge to cause one to lose all that they own.:)

All of which I have gained knowledge from reading and now I am working on gaining the experience needed.

Harrison, to my knowledge the four rule created by fannie only applies to individuals.

With that said, however, I don't think it's necessary as long as you have acquired the specific knowledge you need to get started.

It takes human skill, knowledge, and diligence to get a real opinion of value.

Bearing in mind my limited hands-on knowledge at the moment, I feel that I'm gravitating towards wholesaling and bird dogging right now.