For you to get a discount you need financial distress and distress on the condition of the property.Now... for the other "really beat up house"... you should be able to turn that into money if you get a developer buyer.

Work hard and do well in school, develop your basic life skills and most of all HAVE FUN.

I listen to podcasts to and from work and browse around the forums after the kiddos go to sleep.My ultimate goal is to get into developing properties or spec homes, while maintaining rental properties that cashflow.

Many builders and developers can't seem to finance larger acreage developments and multi home tracts using traditional bank financing, and most of the developed land that was developed prior to the real estate crash of 2008 was absorbed in the last 5 years by larger nationwide builders.

Equity gets a preferred return of 8%, then I get a developer fee of 6% of costs, then all add'l upside is split 50/50.

Obama has been trying to reach out to the Choctaw nation for some time; Deborah Powell, Native American Development Specialist for the Housing Authority of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was a guest in Michelle Obama’s box for Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address.The “Promise Zone” program will be administered by the U.S.

I would like to begin developing private money lending relationships.

Learn to identify the type of transaction that will be applicable to the property, to the needs of the seller, to the circumstances, when you can do that you can make a deal out of almost any property that is for sale.

A PUD (Planned Unit Development) could be attached (similar to a duplex) or detached (like a SFR, but often smaller or closer together).

Like @Brian Gibbons stated, you have a 4-legged stool - we identify this as :1) Marketing, 2) Buying (negotiating), 3) Funding, and 4) Selling (or leasing).