I regularly receive text, emails and paper mail, even people knocking on my door from my "utility company" and it's a dead ringer for their letterhead sometimes even, but fake nonetheless.And to be clear is it for sewer lateral (waste line) replacement or the incoming service line of clean water to your rental?

If you go to a regular bank that will matter greatly to them except if you use a cash rich partner. 

Extra doors for one mortgage.We also did move regularly into fixers, improved them over time.

The person that told you to keep your regular job made since as that is mental therapy as well as income.

Ill research it to death, researcher by nature.

By having the right verbiage reviewed by a RE lawyer, a wholesaler can stay complaint with the law as well as explain to the buyer the nature of the assignment and what exactly they are doing.#3 Double Close Versus assignments.Simply put, double close to protect the wholesalers & all related parties much better than assignments.

Liberal/socialist policies that favor renters over LandlordsIncreasing taxes and government regulationProperty prices make cash flowing difficultLow-quality rentersOver-crowdingOne natural disaster can shut down the entire stateJust to name a few examples.

I've got the personal, professional, and educational background to head into real estate, and I've learned from some of the best, even though most of it has been tangential to my day job (which has involved working regularly with real estate investors for the past fifteen years).

His property owes probably over 200k in late fees and regular payments. 

I always recommend at least talking to a few local lenders in the area you are looking at because they regularly have better rates than the national banks.