The trust factor has to be there and asking one of them to represent you will greatly help you relax...and they get paid.

Public is ideal, but you can work with the others, you just need to know the regulations in the area.

Understanding personalities, motivating factors, likes and dislikes are as important as knowing market stats and trends.

when you make offers, just factor in the cost of using a real estate professional to sell your properties.

For the experts, would you factor in average rents based on Section 8 guildelines as well?

:DThere is also another factor to that argument.

I deal with over 90 lenders so that I ensure you that I am able to offer you the most competitive deal for your financing.

However you have to factor in the 40k cash back.

Another good example of a similar risk is investors bidding as owner/occupants on HUD properties, which I hear happens alot.I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet on the risk factor here for my first property and DEFINATELY get a mortgage broker to work on my next one.

Ideally, for my first flip it would be great for me to do some of the minimal skill tasks to make sure I stay within a set budget.