Try to find out a little about them and when they take a breath, being polite, interject what you know about them and why you are selecting or thinking about them, compliments don't hurt.

If you haven't been reading the forums already, dig in; there is a breath wealth of experience here in the community.

It also was very recent too so this was not back in the days when banks would lend to anyone who was breathing.

. $2000 worth of survey site plan.Breathe breathe....just got done talking to township.

(deep breath) First order of business (for me) has been to find something of a mentor.

Our first deal, we think, has been the sweetest for us.We found an out of state property owner with two side-by-side one bedroom houses in a solid, quiet, peaceful, middle class neighborhood.

Peace.

What he brings as a partner, at least until I have more experience, is peace of mind that I (hopefully) won't end up with a house that needs $150k of work (renovation prices seem crazy over-inflated here - I brought another contractor friend to an auction property to give me an estimate with the knowledge that I wasn't going to be using him as the GC, so he had no incentive to inflate the estimate, and by the time the property would have been rehabbed - I don't have the numbers, but it was $30k for the cracked driveway, $20k for the garage, $7k on windows, $25k for a kitchen, and on and on - it would have been $150k of repair costs on a 1500 square foot house that was in livable condition), or the work will be held to minimum cost.

Take a deep breath.

Most of my clients barely have time to breathe they are so busy and just want something that goes and they collect a check.You can find small NNN deals sometimes like a Pizza Hut for 300,000 at a 10 cap or things like that.