If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

Call all the auction companies in your area and get on their mailing listing (make a personal contract with auctioneer associates - let them know that you are a buyer)  they will email you a list of up-coming foreclosure auctions.Your benefit by getting to the owner early, is that you may be able to 1.take over the mortgage by making up the back payments 2. get a deed signed, 3. take over the existing mortgage 4. advise the owner how to delay or stop the mortgage foreclosure 5.

Whenever someone files for bankruptcy, there is an automatic stay of all legal proceedings against that person. 

It can also handle inbound customer service calls & converses like a person rather than a robot.

That will be your main sources of funds...and typically you and your friends will need to invest $50,000-$100,000 per person. 

Ben, So what I am hearing you saying is you had a property in LA that was worth $755,000 and after the sale of that property, you cleared $366,000 which you turned and bought a property in Houston for $400,000 by using the $366,000 and adding $34,000 more in personal funds. am I correct in my understanding?

So S8 not longer fits my strategy personally.  

Let's work together to change the game for the mutual growth of your REAL ESTATE business.

I'm, personally, an investor in Midwest markets were I can still cash flow immediately.

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