Im very excited to get out into the field and plan on committing basically every single day of the next 2-3 months too build my reputation and start generating clientele.

The thing is that there are more than one dozen ways to succeed in real estate investing, but whatever way you choose decide to become an expert in that area of investing, a real professional, smart, savvy, timely, and committed. 

Ask about putting the house in an irrevocable trust for your mother.Seeing this through is going to take time and financial commitment from both you and your mother.

@Abraham Anderson Definitely get all your numbers together before you commit.

Plan on making a commitment to mail at least once a month for a minimum of six months. 

I see this is a commitment that similar to a long-term relationship, so if I am not feeling it in my gut, then I generally don’t proceed. 

Are you committed to investing in your own market or one specific market elsewhere?

Am I committing any sort of rules violations by commenting on a friend's experience with this guy?

They say there is a sucker born every minute so there should be plenty of them in your area, will you help us find them and get them to commit to doing business with us and by the way we will just keep it our secret that we are looking into the possiblity you might be one of those as well, wink, wink :), but by working with us you just might prove you are smarter than the rest, how about it?

We got it under contract, but the inspection determined we would have to replace a garage/basement wall and we had to extend the deadline to commit until this Friday to get some bids for repairs.