Pennsylvania is like MO - title company does both activities.

Houses are showing active and gone in 24 - 48 hours. 

Gist of the idea is you develop your marketing advertisement (think: car magnet), hire a driver who is already actively driving around (Lyft, Uber, etc), and have someone (or many someones) marketing your company while they drive. 

Hi BP Nation,You can see from my profile that I've been a member of the site for quite some time, but I've only recently started actively engaging. 

My husband is active duty Navy and we are also investors.

the activity might be illegal, the taking of equity of those in pre or foreclosure can leave you exposed to legal action.I would do some more research 

Be sure to be as active and engaging as possible.

You will report your purchase and improvements when you sell, which will leave you with your gain which is tax exempt for 250K single or 500K married.You don't report anything now because there is no ongoing reason to track the number for tax purposes like there is on a rental where you're actively taking depreciation.

As far as I know, the person actively using the oxygen does not smoke, but I honestly can't say I'm 100% sure.

Forget about building up potential competitors, you're requesting that someone take time out of their day -- maybe their investing activities or personal time -- without a return on that time.