In my case it has played out over 15 years.I bought this house over a decade ago and live in it with the plan of eventually renting it out.

We want to go in together and become a entity under a company name that we can grow with, not individual buyers.

And with a good tenant buyer that is willing to pay in a little extra per month toward the down payment, you can get them to work... and ultimately collect your profit on the backend, or on the second and third lease option tenants if that plays out.The clear advantage of going this way is... if you dont find a "GOOD" lease option buyer, you are not obligated to the sellers... just let the bank take it like they were going to anyway.Pre-foreclosure lists are easy to find, and because getting a short sale completed is a numbers game there are often many sellers in that niche that could not get the short sale done, and are going to walk... you can cut your teeth on those until you get your system fine tuned.On a side note... the other way to go is to get a mailing list of absentee owners from your county tax rolls, or realquest.com.

AS you can see, Im lost and would like advice on the best way to go, I would like to make alot of money, but i also want to play it safe too.Or is this even a good deal?

This should be in the off-topic forum.That said, I play FXI (NYSE) against FXP (AMEX).Both are Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) tied to the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index.

This kind of leverage is not for the faint of heart, but if you're in it to win it, you have to play big.

We are individuals who buy real estate (single family houses, duplexes, multiple apartment units, commercial properties, etc.) for profit.

What about buying in an entity and not as individual (which I plan on doing anyway for tax and liability reasons)?

I am thinking, why not split off the back house and sell it individually?

I got myself involved with some individuals in the midwest and are now connecting deals for REO's in Chicago.