Here's a few: dress appropriately, have good hygiene, if you have biz cards make them look professional, buy a domain name for your email address, create a website, make sure your online profiles are up to date and professional, have a professional voicemail message, return phone calls and emails, don't give someone a dead fish handshake (own it), listen, take care when writing emails, and the list goes on.

Have you ever been late on a credit card payment and called the company asking to remove the late fee?"

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I have to do a little extra work at the end of the year to give the numbers to him in a nice format but there's not much to it.I don't think I'd get quickbooks just yet if you only have the one property.Basically, all you need to do is track your payments (i.e. expenses), rents, and taxes and insurance.The columns I put in the spreadsheet for expenses are:1) House address (Crete - Dale Dr)2) Date of transaction3) Brief description4) Amount5) Account paid from type (i.e. cash, check, credit card)6) Check number (if checking)7) Account number or bank name (last 4 of credit card or bank name)8) Vendor name (i.e paid to).

I hadn't checked the credit score, but she mentioned that the score might have been affected when her baby's father applied for credit cards in her name  and racked them up.  

@Michael Tempel , what is the brand of the credit card laundry equipment you use?

what are you going to be doing with your post cards?

@Thomas Morgan you might upload your rules and/or application to BP FilePlace and other can comment it. 

To actually become a wholesaler/RE investor not having any money (because we are consistently in the hole every month until our car gets paid off at the end of the year), being a SAHM (I love being at home with our youngest two but I make no money), and marginal credit (I haven't really checked recently and I haven't used or had a credit card in years)?

You may own it, but it isn't you and you aren't it.That being said, a lender will generally make the MAJORITY shareholder(s) personally guarantee any loan or line of credit if the business isn't well established.Case in point, after about a year of operations my C-corp got a VISA card to simplify cash flow logistics and purchasing.