Out of state investing = what wealthy Californians do to lose money.Do yourself a big flavor and don't mess with the equity in your own home.

Slow process if you purchase a foreclosed home and can have the original owner come back and demand their home back by paying whats owed-- not necessarily what it's worth.Trust Deeds come in more flavors.

Florida FARBAR contract.You also might want to know chapter 475 Florida statutes.Unlicensed brokering is the flavor of the year for new "investors".What is your strategy? 

You can't fund until you have a deal, but once you have a deal it's too late to find funds...What you do is line up the funding: get a private investor or bank that agrees to a flavor of deal. i.e.

Cameras come in indoor and outdoor flavors. 

You might also try the Denver meetup to get a flavor of what folks are doing.

I have just returned from her 2-day training and can confirm she is the real deal.Very knowledgeable person, who has done not only the hard-core "buying-at-the-auction" type of deal but many other "flavors" of real estate investing that are created where there is a situation of distressed owner/property.

Today's flavor was orange.

That is, whereas Socialism has a "benefitting the people" flavor to it, the moves that Bush and Obama made in regard to the economy were a page out of the corporatist model of governing.

In my mind, that comes in two flavors - either you have a larger capital cushion (by having a lot more capital) OR you have a mentor who's really invested in walking you through the process.