Also, they can pull listings, expired listings, and cash transactions for you.You need to make sure when you find a good realtor that you help them too.

Good morning all, A local experienced investor recorded a seminar where he vigorously asserts that a Contract Sale are a much less risky and more fairer to both TB and Seller than Lease Options (he states that LO transactions fail 95% of the time resulted in the TB not closing on the property).Are Contract Sales the same as a Land Contract?

They suggest that all new investors start with a few buy/sell transactions to get started and that the average profit for one of these is 17.5K.

The end :) I'll add one more - buying below market now it's the end :-) LOL, not to be picky, but, you buy at a great price not at market value, buying off market, when the transactions fails to meet market value requirements.

If your brother is out of the transaction, move on.

While Canada has no gift tax and Shahriar could technically "gift" any amount to his relative in the U.S.A. without tax implications at home - the transaction(s) would still be subject to U.S.A gift limits and taxation - he would not be investing at that point and could never "legally" accept any form of capital repayment {gift disguised as a loan} or profit from the gifted capital.The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) takes an extremely dim view on loans disguised as gifts and, at their discretion, decide that the gift was really a loan or investment and treated as such from a taxation perspective.

These issues with the CFD not only apply to residential property but also commercial transactions in real estate.

The requirements for using notaries on title insured transactions has changed substantially where I am in the last several years.

Some real estate commission examiner can just take notes and when they get to some city, they can check up on any transaction.

A good bank would be able to cover all of your needs at very little to no cost depending on how many transactions you plan to do.