.* Having their Option able to be "marketed and sold" by TBers at their own expense if there is either a family emergency or job transfer (needs to be proven)IMHO, people that 10% into a property will get financed better and easier than No Money Down or 3%.

Anyone else still working on Step 1?

Before, one opened the storm door and stepped from the kitchen over the threshold, and down a few inches to the slab at ground level.

Investors who have large untapped capital gains are taking steps to realize those gains this year because they are convinced the cap gains rate is going to double next year.

Exactly TIm, and landlords that handle the rental themselves can take steps to do this.

Anything that the tenant puts on the application is just fiction until proven otherwise and I'm not going to spend hours and hours screening each applicant.

Andrew - You've just proven my point about the unreliability of these property value websites.

Try and work on doing that often, and if you can get past the nervousness of a cold call- you're already a BIG step ahead of a lot of people!!

I’m grateful for the friends I have now, for those events that give pleasure and understanding, for those incidents that are stepping stones to the next days, that stand as monuments as I look back on them.

hmmm....fear of the unknown and most of all, I don't know what to do next.Any advice on what steps to take to get my first deal?