btw, I really hope I'm doing something wrong because I've tried 5 local banks who do NOT lend based on LTV of assessed price (each time I spoke with someone in residential lending).

The forums that seem to have the most activity are:•SEO•Google-Yahoo-Search Engines•Linking•Getting Attention to Blogs•Marketing Ideas•Website design and Dev•Social NetworkingAll are great areas to pay attention to, but the single most important piece of the puzzle that I think is being overlooked is MOBILE.Here are some of the leading objections I hear from real estate agents, brokers and industry pros:•I use my phone for phone calls not to text chat•I only use text messaging to communicate with friends and family•I have a client that uses it all the time and I hate it.

I have not had time to assess the deal properties yet but I specifically told my realtor what I was looking for in terms of DOM (at least 90 days), expired listings, fixer-uppers and shortsales.

Actually no, we don't have much in the way of gang activity and we certainly don't have MS13 in the area, so she must have been from out of town.

We changed and went to an affiliate model and then actively worked to recruit those affiliates.

However, it will take time before some lenders will consider lending you money for your real estate investing activities, although you do still have options.

My ratios were screwed up for a couple of months (and my sleep pattern) but within 45 days I had sold one and gotten all my money out of it and gotten back to where I was actively looking again.frank

Not actually sure how you would do that, since you aren't actually buying when you're wholesaling.If you were buying with IRA money, then quickly selling, this would be an active business, and subject to UBIT (unrelated business income tax.)

This is considered the largest annual decline since the last recession of 2001 when banks started tightening credit.The Federal Reserve also conducted a survey in April this year of senior loan officers which reflected that 55% of American banks had tightened their lending requirements for commercial and industrial loans to small and mid-size businesses. 70% of those surveyed said they have made the loans more expensive.With the Federal Reserve trying to keep interest rates low so that money is available to jump start economic activity, the banks are not going along with the plan by holding on to their money.

I remember getting pretty active in the discussion here: LLC, S-Corp, or LP Holding Company?