Now I can connect to them and more easily find individuals when I want to go back to a prior conversation.

You can very easily wait on them to say that they will take the deal and then put it under contract, and that is always a legal way to go for your sales.

Also, REOs can be easily viewed prior to buying.

B) Make good friends with a small banker and do a couple of deals with him/her to get a rapport.C) Buy RE with a personal guarantee (but deed it at closing to the LLC) so you can get a balance sheet on your LLC that demands respect from the small banker in point B aboveThis will allow you to do business more easily on behalf of your business rather than you as an individual investor.

Like empty seats on an airplane there is little value if you do not get this over the line.Make the fee small enough so that the person buying pulls out all the stops to get this done.

low cost,no maintenance, easily acquireable from out of state owners.

Some will just offer free advice but you will take a back seat when other things become more important.5.

In a home run system you can easily have in excess of 25 feet of additional pipe to heat up.

Make the name something that a person can say easily on the phone.

As Peter said above, I would most certainly hide a fee of that size on a blind HUD and do a double close.However transaction funding won't easily be available for that size.