Providing referrals to those around you is a free and highly effective way of generating good will towards yourself and establishing a favorable reputation.

The reason is that person to person marketing will always be an effective but cheap method of winning sales for businesses in all stages of development.Getting close and personal with a prospect allows you to have the maximum number of channels of influence available to you to persuade the prospect to complete the sale.

The Government is going to make an offer to purchase all the properties in order to sort of stabalize the effect of foreclosures on the Banks.Has anyone heard something similar?

I was also wondering if the presence of effective public transportation 2 minutes away will influence the price upwards more, with gas prices as they are (we pay close to 6$ a gallon here) and looking like they will keep on going up.

Late or missed payments can create negative effects on your credit profile as do long-term balances on your account.

I wouldn't want to give the homeowner the impression that I will be closing on their property if I really have no intention of doing that.Assuming this is true, would you use some type of option agreement as an addendum to a purchase and sales agreement or would an option contract be self contained?

A Good realtor can educate you and in the process, expose you to 100% of the market place, to include FSBO.I agree with your innuendo though, a bad realtor actually has an adverse effect on your transaction.Find a good realtor that knows REO and knows negotiating.Good Luck with the property!

You wonder how effective these are if multiple investors have the same web sites in the same area.

I just received a call from my banker telling me that this policy would be effective on June 29 2008.

May be self employment tax, too.