Always surround yourself with those you want to be like and it will happen naturally.

@Ronald Laurion That's good to know regarding the natural uptick towards April.

If the property have major damage by natural disaster.

so far Nothing but i think REI is like riding a motorcycle "ITS NOT IF YOU WILL CRASH ITS WHEN" I believe that everyone that is serious about real estate will at one point or another LOSE money, not because of BP but because its the nature of REI... and as Adam Meier mentioned above, if YOU NEVER lost money/crashed/lost, etc. at all in anything is because you haven't gone at it hard enough, and haven't even gotten close to the true potential. and this is from limited experience on my own here in Texas but I've done more in 3 months than a lot have done 3 months 4 wholesales 2 bought properties (1 flip / 1 hold) so yeah i will eventually lose some money i can only hope that all the made I've made will cover what i will lose. just my thoughts! 

(note: this was in the stairwell only and owner told us he would paint that.)Thank you, BP, for your sage advice as we close on our first deal.   

I kept talking about my investment and the returns I'm seeing, and people naturally just get interested.

Mandatory escrow accounts all around, naturally.

I did this many times (over prepared with questions) but honestly it will come natural and believe it or not, I gaurantee that you will be doing a lot of listening and not much talking.

As an environmentalist too, I think we need to be looking into ways to conserve natural resources, not just our money. :)

This will obviously vary by agent, but it's simply the natural process in the world of any commission/independent contractor position.