If you do a little searching on building a buyers list, there are a number of discussions on techniques for building up your list.

======Become a POWER LISTENER=== Here's a listening trick that I use sometimes.....lean forward and slightly towards them while they're talking and place your cupped hand behind your ear to increase amplification if a distraction arises while they're talking.

I am a real estate agent and investor but never tried handling transactions by using this technique.

While I do see the power of Facebook in promoting some personal and business services, as well as promotional power for consumer brands, I am not sure we should all abandon our other advertising and marketing media.

It's all about wealth and power there.

This is because of the voting power in the HOA and the HOA has considerable power over the overall property.As time passes and units are bought, sold, and or rented the percentage of non-owner occupieds can change and that can change whether the same property is warrantable or not.

Putting yourself in the shoes of the seller's agent, you want your client knowing that the buyer is serious. 2) You can report back to your client on the structural condition before you make an offer and you have more power to negotiate on your client's behalf knowing the condition is poor- even if they're gutting the entire place.3) Your other buyers may like a certain property you're viewing, even if it's not right for this buyer mentioned in your post. 

You can get huge ranking power with the video and it doesn't cost much.

Hey John Trout - I ran across this video a couple of years ago that explains one of the ideas behind this technique (buying an LLC instead of the property itself):http://youtu.be/0sjLNIEsKKk (he gets into it at approx 3:00)In this case, he's talking about using this technique as more of a substitute for assigning a contract (this comes in handy when lenders get involved and refuse to cooperate with an assignment).For the scenario you're talking about (if the property is already owned) I suppose you could use this same process to save on recording/closing costs and transfer taxes (because there is no new deed being recorded).

When I first heard about this technique I thought it was crazy.