Is it possible that, (as you mentioned being online for years), was one of the main ingredients necessary to crack the code......Also, there's tons of stuff to market online....what directed you towards real estate?

I fear we will all miss not having to fight the terrorists on our soil instead of on foreign soil.I hope I am wrong.I did vote for Bush twice because he was better than the other choices.

hi allvadimyou need to ask to make me a collegue and I will send you thru what we are looking at doing and we can look at your property no problemcross wind very interesting as we are looking at nearly the same except we are using llc in each state and the structure is very similar we have been working on it for about 3 weeks now and its as close to our structures we have here and I think it can work hi tim I am learning your banking structures but it seems to be very similar if not the same as ours and yes we do commercial funding or borrowing here so we understand the type of loan system we want to doand what you call pool loans we call syndicated or umberella loans between lenders so the loans stay in place just a larger bank sits at the top and pools all the different bank loans together under its bannerI am trying at this stage to find out the credit unions and the smaller banks lending criteria mainly for refinance not for purchasehere we have very different lending criteria for refi as against purchasewe do % of purchase price or val which ever is the lesser which is the same therewe have a higher % for a refi and that seems the same therewant I am trying to find out an this will be different for different lendershow long from purchase can you refihere for resi its 6 months but for comm its straight awaywe are looking at 60 to 70% lvr or what you call lvt.

I have since decided to focus all of my energy in gaining more investors instead of using credit cards for the main down payment and has been working out well.

I AM A YOUNG SEASONED RE INVESTOR THAT MAINLY WHOLESALES PROPERTIES ALL OVER THE US...TRYING TO KEEP IT VIRTUAL :lol: I LOVE TO NETWORK AND AM ALWAYS LOOKING TO MEET ACTIVE RE INVESTORS LOOKING TO ADD TO THEIR PORTFOLIOS.

So the answer to the original question from the concensus is that your home can be an "investment" leaving out "the why you buy aspect" and only considering the appreciation value over a length of time to build equity and choice of area makes a big difference between a "good investment" and a "bad one".

In getting approved for trading options, everybody gets approved for covered calls, buying calls and puts are the next level and still easy to get, then selling covered puts which becomes harder to pull off profitably then selling naked is the hardest level to get and is for high rollers and institutions mainly.

If they don't have a lender of choice we can recommend but we can't dictate.

Went and bought some FSBO signs and posted them on main streets with little arow signs to direct to the house.

However the choice of properties is limited :( Another option is FHA loans, but those are for owner-occupied properties only, and there is a limit of one FHA per person usually.