Therefore, to have a $10,000 monthly positive cash flow in ten years, you would need to acquire 100 units over that 10 year period.

They also have additional services in which you can "rush" the direction of investment & pay minor additional fees for the rush.As far as Guidant Financial Services, they are expenseive, simply because an additional step must be taken to set up the checkbook access which requires an LLC to be formed.

Many people, know, for example, the story of how IBM initally tried to acquire an operating system from the PC from Digital Research, but were turned away and ended up getting one from Gates.

This particular sale has a 180 day redemption period I cannot get a straight answer from the IRS about the taxpayers access and posession right to the property after the sale.

This saves you time for the really profitable aspects of real estate investing.While all bird dogs are not Realtors, Realtors have a huge advantage over non Realtor bird dogs, for obvious reasons: They have access to the local MLS, FLMS listings, they know the neighborhood, they know how long the homes are on the market, they know what buyers are looking for, they know what it will take to get it in resale condition, they have access to motivated buyers and sellers or can find them for you.Without motivated sellers you can't put together real estate deals.

http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2008/pr08098.htmlMonroe Bank & Trust Acquires All the Deposits of Main Street Bank, Northville, Michigan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 10, 2008 Media Contact:LaJuan Williams-DickersonOffice: [email protected] Main Street Bank, Northville, Michigan, was closed today by the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver.

I'd like to Fix and Flip, however I would prefer if my first property is an income property that I could acquire and hold (landlord).

Jon, using your formula, I'd have to acquire this property at $70,000 for it to cash flow, assuming 7% mortgage and $950/mo rent, wouldn't I?

If I had instant access to funds every time I spotted some thing that I wanted most likely I would run out of MLS properties and have to start networking too.

I recently got access to $130K cash via a partner, so I'm ideally looking for a good 'flip' property to build up some more capital.