Is this true?

I have just begun to dabble in high end properties outside the Carolinas such as golf courses, REO packages, shopping malls, etc.

Whenever you have a concentration of foreclosures and REO they are no longer the anomaly in the market, they are the driving force in the market.Lenders will look at comps too and they are not going to exclude 6 out of the 8 true comparable sales.

I think this is so true.

i told my parents about my idea of going into real estate and both adviced me against it. they keep telling me market is bad and a lot of real estate agents are having a hard time, is that true?

So basically the main difference between a bird dog and a wholesaler is that the bird dogger just finds the property for the investor and the wholesaler actually puts the property under agreement and then shops it to his investors?

I would agree with Patrice that double closings can be a mess if your attorney or title company doesn't know what they are doing, but this statement is true for ALL transactions.

My clothes were simple, I lived in student housing for years and shopped at the day old bread store.

I have several strategies in place and have shopped in my spare time for years.

He had a shop built in his backyard the size of many houses and it had everything he needed to start with raw hardened steel stock various woods and build a complete weapon.