@Brian BishopYou might have some luck meeting other investors in person; I know I've found this to be the case.Here's a meeting in your area, it was yesterday, but it's a start:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/125422-houston-meetup---thursday-may-8-2014

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Call my REIA in SChttp://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/real-estate-clubs/2.

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I pretty much us this strategy to tell some these sellers that they are dreaming in a professional way lollolhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4977/blog_posts/36698-if-you-throw-enough-mud-on-a-brick-wall-eventually-some-will-stickThanks for reading and have a great day.

For the "stumped" folks here looking thru 1 billion posts, here is John's post.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/83/topics/79732-how-to-set-the-numbers-on-a-lease-optionAnd see my "Business Plan for Low Equity Deals."

First is to accept the first qualified applicant as described in this next link.http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2008/2/2/managing-tenants-part-two-steering-clear-of-the-fair-housing-act/But if you are trying to pick the "best" applicant, then you have to have a somewhat rigorous approach such that no applicant can achieve the required qualifying score; your policy would then have an exception that if some certain number of applications or within a certain timeframe there is not fully qualified applicant, you would offer to the most qualified.

My lender knows my situation well and I just completed a refi with them one month ago.http://www.biggerpockets.com/mortgage/homepath-loan/homepath-loan-or-fha-loan/There have also been changes to the Homepath program which make it a better deal than it once was for investors.

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