Luckily, I can delegate most of that stuff out to employees, and focus on what I do enjoy...building the business...

Between employees, clients, tenants, finances, and emergencies there is ALWAYS something.

I would like to expand nationally and leverage my time by hiring employees / agents.

We'd like to avoid being employees of the company.I know in one sense it may be similar to cosigning, which I am normally 200% against, but in this case it would be up to us to keep the property from defaulting, as managers.

Borrowed a legal pad (I was in the wrong car) and a pen and wrote the option right there and two employees signed it for me right there.

I think this is the best and most conservative way to value short-term assets, such as inventory.For my internal management decisions, I value all assets exactly as Jason does - estimated market value minus expected cost of sale.

My suntrust lender told me that don't have their own internal guidelines on less than 90 day flips they just follow HUD guideleins.

I have a real estate partner who is very investor friendly (carries an international lisence and does REO's) and I would be happy to introduce you to him if your interested?

I figure it is public information who owns the company so someone could find out, but I have seen that many investors seem to think it is nice to pretend to be a lower level employee of the company.

After reading this, the first thing that came to mind was:Microsoft Windows pulls in about $13B in profit per year with margins of about 80%...Given that, why does Microsoft take 75% of that $13B and put it back into the 40,000 employees, hundreds of products and half-dozen business units not focused on Microsoft Windows?