I've also met two partners on BP, accounting for over a dozen projects.I've found several contractors on BP who have worked out extremely well.

Assessing risks to set interest rates.

For example, when I had a dozen deals under my belt I had a sufficient track record to attract people who already knew me to invest with me.

Question now is who claims what on profits and how they justify the claim.Risk: Money folks will always go here, but most of the compensation for the use of money, the real lending risk is pretty well assessed by what banks would lend at.

Pawn-gun shopClearly the first two are fairly easy to assess and address issues of, the rest depend, but the landlord needs to understand what kinds of operations go on in his/her building, what they have as inventory, the type of clientel that walks through, what equipment they may have and how that equipment may play on building conditions and the risks posed by such operations.If you don't have a clue as to business operations, you should not get involved in commercial properties.

I can go to my county's property assessment website and go from property to property to check to see if the taxes are current, but obviously this is painstaking work and probably not the highest and best use of my time.

Within hours I had about two dozens emails offering to pick them up.

Houses that people want to sell are a dime a dozen, just in the MLS, DEALS are made by finding someone with a problem you can fix.

The developers try to time the market for a project.So I have seen developers go I will buy now to lock in a low price and pay the carrying costs OR I have seen them wait until new council members get in who are more pro growth OR they wait for a good time of them year to build.For a seller one of the main reasons they do not get a rezone from residential to commercial is the cost and time involved plus once you get zoned to commercial you will get hit with higher assessed property taxes and the land might not sell for years instead of months.Just try to talk to whatever development group is interested and express what points are important to you.

MOST assessors concentrate on gross living area to estimate value for assessment purposes rather than bedroom count.