>>>>Hi,Here's a quote from one of my favorite books on tax deeds/sheriff sales:1.

TRUSTEE'S SALE OF 2061 ROYAL FERN COURT 12B TRUSTEE'S SALE OF 2061 ROYAL FERN COURT 12B Reston, VA 20191 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $212,100.00, with an annual interest rate of 12.1500% from BRIAN DAVID BROWN dated August 26, 2005, recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX as Deed Book/Instrument # 17705 AT PAGE 2027, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, on the courthouse steps at the front of the Circuit Court building for the County of Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia on January 30, 2007 at 11:30 AM, the property with improvements to wit: APARTMENT NUMBERED 2061-12B, TYPE B-R, SOUTHGATE CONDOMINIUM, AS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN MASTER DEED ESTABLISHING A HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME WITH ATTACHED PLATS DESIGNATING THE RELATIVE LOCATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF EACH APARTMENT RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 3912 AT PAGE 254, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO HEREAFTER RECORDED, AS PERMITTED BY PARAGRAPH F.9 OF THE SAID MASTER DEED. and described in the above Deed of Trust.

it's not just about reading books about real estate investing and asking questions about title insurance, appraisals and contract clauses.it's about going the extra mile.

I flipped through the book for a while, but did not buy it.

Be willing to listen to the landlord when they say "The ceiling fans are dirty".

I'm a voracious reader, and I'm constantly reading this and other forums on the net, as well as a bunch of books (waiting for 2 more to arrive from Amazon!)

I recently started a home improvement company - albeit mostly to get my sparsely-employed-as-of-late-contractor-boyfriend off the couch..( He is great at what he does, not so at sales, marketing, follow up, paperwork, keeping books, which I am now handling, along with some light assistance to actual physical work)...Anyway I'm starting my first rehab shortly and was planning to just do the work (it's a light job) between he, I and maybe another guy we know.

The book Acres of Diamonds comes to mind.

Thanks for the encouraging words guys, I know it's going to be a tough road ahead, and look forward to learning as much as I can, while solving some of the many challenges I'll inevitably face along the way.I just bought “The millionaire real estate agent" book, by Gary Keller andDo find it very eye opening to say at the least.

This could be corrected if they were able to learn the same cool strategies that you learn by reading books, courses, tapes, online, etc...The problem with this is that most of your family members probably aren't interested in Real Estate investing.