Knowing how to ensure the closing goes smoothly and quickly the FIRST time is essential.

Even if the house was in a fire, in most cases you can simply wipe the soot off the walls, open the windows, and use an oil-based primer like Kilz original and the smell will go away.

Most tenants run away from an oil heat property so let's hope it's electric or gas.Robert, these are just a few things on the list of what's necessary to know or be prepared for in investing in this area.

And, if that increase in non-branded traffic isn't delivering results, then the added traffic is essentially worthless to you.I hope I addressed all of your questions.

I'm a brand new investor currently residing in Houston, TX and working in the oil and gas industry as an engineer offshore.

You can get approved by showing bank statements and a proof of your taxes for the past 2 or 3 years.This is essential.

I won't dive too deep into this but essentially there were huge conflicts of interests and even border line corruption in the marketplace back then.

Your information is vague and high-level, and is essentially a teaser to entice people to provide you their email address in return for your book, which may or may not be worth it.If you start seriously contributing to the forum -- as opposed to trying to use the forum to help yourself -- than I can vouch for the fact that you will be repaid in terms of networking and traffic to your site.But, until you start seriously contributing -- as opposed to just cutting and paste vague high-level ideas from your book -- you're going to take heat from some people here.Btw, it's clear that you are knowledgeable and have a lot to contribute...we're not beating you up because we don't believe that; we're beating you up because you haven't indicated that you want to really use your knowledge and experience to help those here as much as you want to help yourself.This is a tough crowd.Yup, we are.

So essentially they average up their return from 0%, to 6%, 12%, etc as they buy more liens.I also went to my first tax lien auction a few weeks ago and competed with people bidding three times the tax lien value for premium.

The two party "swap" is the easiest because two parties essentially swap properties with each other.