Ok, so you've identified a few good deals, you have a buyers list (or you might not) and you'r ready to check out the properties.

They are ready to downsize regardless.Good luckPat

It's been a wait they are trying to get the title all cleaned up.Well today my realtor showed us a house in a great neighborhood, 2 bedroom, 1 stall garage (small 832 sq) asking $30,900 - assesed at $49,210 (foreclosure - Freddie Mac), we are going in at $22k for the house and it need about $10k to get it ready to sell but if we were to put carpet/paint in the house for $1k or so we could rent it for $550 easy and then do a lease for 6 mo's then finish it and sell it for $60k - do you think we should do it?

Have some simple business cards ready to go, and when you see a landlord there that is obviously stressed by the process, you might have just found a motivated seller of investment real estate.Enjoy that nugget of wisdom.

However, we have several qualified tenant-buyers that we would like to help so we thought we could just play match-maker until we were ready to do the sandwich lease option.

You would still have to cover any vacancies, interior maintenance, make ready costs, utilities while vacant, legal fees, evictions, advertising, etc.

I put myself through college and worked hard to become an engineer and currently at age 23 I am designing for caterpillar and getting ready to go to Arizona for 6 months to design on the Apache Helicopter for the military.

It is an awful time if you don't.Financing and ready access to funds are what is separating the deal makers from the posers right now and that is not going to change any time in the foreseeable future.

Since all three share information, a file at one will migrate to all three given time.In addition to your EIN the lender will ask for your information and permission to pull your consumer credit file too but a commercial loan will not be reported to your consumer file.If you have bank accounts with the EIN they may or may not get reported and you may already have a business credit file at one or more of the credit bureaus, maybe even D&B even though they may not have given you the internal number they assign to your file, the infamous DUNS number.

If you were getting ready to sell, that might make sense.