Currently the book I'm reading is Frank Gallinelli's "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow" and I'm drooling over stuff on loopnet.

Get J.Scotts book on rehab costs, time lines, and order of doing projects.The order is cruial on some of the key components.

I tried buying the note directly from the bank but given that this bank is a large bank, I was given the runaround and the lower-rank employees who answer the phone say that they don't sell notes.I am willing to partner with and share my profit on this deal with anyone here who has ACTUAL experience buying Jumbo loan/note from a bank (please, do not answer if you just heard it from someone...or you read it from a book, or worse, learned it from the "gurus").

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You can also look for seller financed deals as a foreign investor with the cash down.If it's an out of the country investor or out of state I am getting some requests for sellers not go under contract until the buyer has seen the property and looked over the books first.

I printed the instruction book online (seller didnt leave it for us) and am going to walk through it and check the troubleshooting steps too.

I see I can pay a couple bucks for the obituary and the guest book...GUEST BOOK!

The variations and circumstances could take a book or two, each deal is different.

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