I can't see any one book, much less a guru book, provide anything near the educational materials contained in obtaining the CCIM designation.The CCIM isn't a license it's a designation, you need a RE license to conduct commercial transactions.

Many of those types of companies have a policy of not paying the taxes until the last possible minute.I've been to tax sales where the FedEx person is making a delivery of the tax payment while the tax sale is being conducted. 

Everyone has to do their due diligence when conducting business with individuals - tenants included.

Simply watch how you conduct the deals and you should be fine.

I don't think we can say what case law on a Series LLC has been in Texas, not sure it would make the evening news.I think you're way to concerned about the underlying issue, if a law exists for the formation of an entity and it is properly made and managed and has conducted business legally, no judge will toss it out, not even in Texas.You need to look into the details of management of an LLC, Series or just an LLC, neither are different except for accounting issues and that is not much different, just as accounts are prepared and taxes if you select each series to have its own or you file with a conolidated statement.

Before purchasing the property, I would like someone to conduct a brief walk-through of the property to ensure there is not anything big missing from the pictures that would push a rehab estimate much higher than expected.

Ted's brother Greg is going to have power of attorney for his mother Chelsea soon to conduct business on her behalf.Greg and his brother Ted want to sell me the property for 230k.

I am planning on calling the sheriffs that morning to have them come to the property with me and I will switch the locks right then and there, conduct an inspection of the property and give the tenant a check for the security deposit that same day.

We are both California residents currently building our portfolio in IN.As we have been conducting our due diligence, putting our team together and analyzing properties, we are having trouble finding reliable PM's to connect with to gain reliable rental report data for neighborhoods where our prospective properties are, in order to plug in accurate numbers into the BP calculators and cross-verify our leads. 

An Option allows you an opportunity to do your due diligence which includes having a Market Analysis conducted  in order to find out the highest and best land use, which I mentioned previously.