It's just green pieces of paper.I would agree that if you like manual labor, it would be wiser to find a hobby or create a need that is more fun and maybe less time focused (i.e. it doesn't have to be done today or else).Maybe I just read this wrong, but a lot of posts seem to be about money and not about the ultimate goal: your own happiness.BTW, it says you live in Washington.. doesn't it rain there all the time?

I'm glad you made it out in one piece.

It really depends on your negotiation skills and what your offering.On a side note; it took me 215.33 marketing pieces to get 1 lead.

I thought he was going to give me couple of pieces from remnants sale and I thought great, I just need something decent for my rentals, so that should work fine.Then he started to explain what he had in mind, he said he can write me a fake ticket for a lot lower price and I can just pay him a few bucks to get the "discount".

I am trying to figure out how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop....In Real Estate terminology how many marketing pieces do I need to send out and how many offers do I need to make in order to find a house to wholesale......also what are the best ways that your finding to market to sellers?

Two huge pieces of land and a very large house (All in southamerica).

Sorry, misread the tax abatement piece!

If you drive a piece of crap the prospective client might think you can't afford to maintain the property.

The fallback would be to hire a commercial re broker, but they will take a piece of the total lease value.

Here is a pictorial news piece on what is facing Detroit.