You'll also get some appreciation if you buy right because rents in those areas are reasonably high and some owners aren't charging what the market will bear.

I actually hired one to try and get a mysterious charge-off removed at a price of $99 a month and after 6 months, nothing had happened except that my bank account was $600 lower.

You can charge the entity a management fee to manage the property.My partner and I raided our pension plans and did everything we could to invest.  

Yes, self-directed custodians do charge a fee for every transaction but there are ways to deal with this as well, you can use what is known as Checkbook IRA, which allows you to bypass the custodian and eliminate all transaction based fees.

Some people will allow you to do this for free, and generally they'll say "no charge" if you offer to pay.  

From the owner directly with a copy of their statement or from their credit report (Assuming it's not charged off or subject to BK) and both methods require cooperation from the borrower and, at least one method puts you into tremendous legal trouble if you obtain their credit information without permissible use to do so (Like buying someone's credit report on line)?

My property manager charges 10%, so my monthly PM fee is $130.

Masshousing checks on the income each year and also will charge if it gets refinanced within a certain amount of time.

Always had in my mind that they would have to charge a bit extra to cover the mark up, but I thought it could cost less since they pay so little to the contractors hired by them (The Home Depot).As I was at the home depot store last night questioning about the cost to get their services done, I was approached by a few people in the store, asking if they could give me a price for whatever I need, but on the side (not through the home depot service).

There is a different rule for mortgages signed after January 1, 2016 (I'll put that at the end, so it won't be a distraction here) The redemption price tag is the winning bid amount at the foreclosure auction, plus some additional charges.