It wont pull calls, but it will get other investors calling you, and asking you what the hell you're doing.

If you are satisfied earning 8% compomuded over the next 30 years(hopefully you have that much time to leave your money alone) then invest in equities and hopefully when it comes time that you need to pull some of your gains to supplement your income you dont hit a 2008 becuase then your 8% turns into about 5-6%(great advice). stick with what I'm saying and you will be fine Fertile. invest in yourself, educate yourself in what you are interested in. and hopefully what your interested in, you can control such as real estate, your own business,selling shares of your own company or your own offering, etc. you are an outsider looking in if you throw your 500 bucks into a fortune 500 company and by no means do you have any control whatsoever.

If you have a buyer list with serious investors that are actively looking for deas and know they have the financial firepower to pull the trigger and you show them a great deal that exactly meets their criteria you should be able to do the deal fast.Some extra advice, once you have serious buyers, speed the process up by helping them do the due dilligence.

Although the winters can get quite cold in Northeast OH, we're still at a loss of how one of his tenants was able to run up an $800+ gas bill for a single month (with 2002 natural gas prices).

Planning solves many potential problems and by the time you are 70 you should be pulling out the money anyways.

Maybe buy at a ridiculous price and guarantee 5 years of section 8 housing or something of that nature.

And he's trying to pull it off while distracting you with fake rage at AIG bonuses that his administration wrote into the outrageous stimulus package.

I'm just curious as to what other Investors use to calculate the ARV or FMV when you have trouble finding COMPS (this is assuming that your NOT using a Realtor), See I normally will use websites like Zillow and RealEstate ABC.com to pull COMPS, But their are times when they are No HELP, Because of lack of Information and I'm NOT currently working with a Realtor, So that option is out of the Picture and YES I know that you can go check the Counties web site (Assessed Value) But, That too is usless a lot of times, Due to lack of proper Updating.

Then pull (or in some counties ask the clerk to pull) the file.

Pulling rank, or flexing your investor muscles with a negotiator will not get you far.