It is only fair to request compensation for that effort.I have also worked for borrowers - including rewriting documents for no compensation - only to have the borrower inform me that another lender funded their loan request - often approved with the document that I composed.There are two sides to the upfront fee issue.

Describing your buisiness in the Articles of Organization/Incorporation at start-up is very important, (which we have done).We will just pay our fair share of taxes...cost of business.Jon Holdman : Thanks for the context.

I have found CAREI and IRR to great, but it seems to me most of the events are attended by people who are fairly new or are wholesalers or sponsors.New and experienced would be fine.

Life is not fair, and more so it seems in real estate transactions.

We don't sell anyone's products on BP, though I've been approached by pretty much everyone to do so . . . that is not what this company is about.The incentive to run an event that is a pitch fest is just too great (you can do the math on how much money you can make) to reject, yet we're doing just that -- and we're doing it because I believe that it is far more important to bring credibility to this business then it is to get rich selling out.I'm not alone, because there are a bunch of awesome investors and other presenters coming to this event who all believe in what we're doing.If you're on the fence about coming to our event, I hope you'll read this post and take a chance on us.

I've been tracking my investment area and noticed that the RE market has faired pretty well this winter.

The trustee was going to need a few minutes to write up a bunch of sale memorandums and said he had no problem with the whole thing if we were back in 15 minutes.

Unless my definition of "government owned" is different than most people's, I'm fairly positive that BoA is *not* government owned...

Seems if the home is decent and priced fair it will be gone before the 15 day period is up.

Give them a fair amount of time usually 5 to 7 days to cure the holdup and close with you.