This person will need some serious training from me...Incidentally, my wife and I just came from Cinci last night.

The right contractor makes all the difference.If the property needs corrected health and safety items such as replaced gutters or repaired dry wrought it’s because a trained construction expert or appraiser knows it’s necessary to protect the buyer’s and lender’s interest.It’s no more difficult for the borrower to qualify for a 203k loan either, it’s an FHA loan.Any Realtor who says you can’t use a 203k to buy a short sale is wrong.Like most Realtors, they don’t understand the loan so they stay away from it and tell their clients the same.This is a shame since there are 203k classes out there for Realtors to learn how it works, I teach one.

I've done a training video on it and I can recommend a good book, too.

Xing Zhu,I would be very careful with the information you get from a CSR with the IRS as often times they do not have adequate tax training.

I look forward to talking with you all and would love to hear any advice on multi-family/commercial/development training.

If you can't get within 10k or so, you'll need to get more appraising training (listen to tomorrow's Podcast here on BP - it will help with that!)

I will be moving out of state in June for a great new job, training for 11 months, and then moving back and taking over a sales territory somewhere in Wisconsin.

What company will provide best training?

I want to take my time to train now, so I can have more time to build my business later.

If your dream path would be to open up a shelter for abused animals or to move to Aruba and train tourists to surf, you probably should not be a full time real estate investor.