Your Lender My suggestion to find #2 & #4 would be to go to the top of this page and click on AGENTS  & LENDERS.

What prompted you to go the C Corp route?

Luckily my mother is a realtor and just a couple of weeks ago we came across a duplex that was off the market and was about to go into foreclosure.

There are rules and situations unique to each state and that is why you want to go with a local lender vice someone just reaching out to you telling you they can do it. 2) Better recourse if the lender screws something up: a local lender has more skin in the game so to speak as if they screw something up their name will be mud to local real estate agents in the deal.

So when you need to go check on things, rent units, meet contractors, etc, you're jumping in the car for 6 hours, spending 1hr there, and I'm thinking after a full days's work. 

In my state the standard contract used by realtors addresses this issue by allowing the agent to check a box specifically to limit the seller to keeping the EMD as opposed to going after "liquidated damages" like that.

I would love to talk more about having you on as a guest on the Rookie Podcast to go into how exactly you were able to handle this upset in your real estate journey.  

A great way to get started is to go to local real estate investor meetups and meet other investors.

But I plan to go there to see and know the city in general and different neighborhoods in particular.

If someone doesn't want to do the work and put in the time to invest in RE, stocks and index funds is probably the better way to go - I've stopped trying to convince my friends (the mortgage free people) the benefits of RE.