I've found that on-site signage and relationships with prospective tenants/retailers is the best way to get the spaces leased.

You need to speak with a banker that you have a good personal relationship with or a good financial lender that has access to commercial lenders.

This has been a rather long post but I will add that the 50% "rule" is an excellent starting point to evaluate property that you wish to hold for income.

I've found some excellent folks here and I like that I've generally seen people here with the attitude of using information - not just amassing it.

we have excellent credit: 791 and 761our house just appraised at $1.1million and has $417K fixed 5.25%mortgagei am self employed and always have gone stated income.are there any banks doing stated income lines of credit??

building a relationship with the local police dept can be an invaluable tool.

Good if you happen to be traveling around and you are not near your computer.There are a few people who have solutions that are Excel based.

After the six months, you're going to be much deeper into this than $185K.Even if you can stick to the $203 amount you plan for the refi (not purchase), and get excellent terms (say 8%, 360 year amortization), you'll have annual payments around $18,000.

They can be dealt with direct, but there again, why not use someone who already has a relationship with them?

Like a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system I can organize my contacts and my communication in a way that makes sense to me rather than having to search the forum for something that I think might have been said by someone.Most people do seem to be using the profile section to provide a description of what they do.