You'll also have to think about how you want to split profits and losses between the two of you if one of you is fronting cash and the other is fronting services. 

Hello Anthony,I am military as well phenomenal to see fellow service members leaning towards real estate.

I thought I lost service along with the thread so created a new one

Keep sending over an appliance repair person, but every time he reports nothing is wrong let them know (when they call) they are paying for the service call if nothing is found to be wrong.2.

You'll get a much better ROI out of your mail campaigns by offering your services as a realtor if the seller doesn't want to sell at a discount. 

Instead, use BP and other similar resources to build yourself a local network separate from those providers that you pay for services.

I just "love" this service business! 

@Paul Wakim, thank you for the detailed explanation of what you managed to do with your own culled lists using a programmer's services.

Adding up taxes, debt service and any property management seems to make it an unreasonable investment at $300k.  

Lenders have a couple of legit reasons for this information: 1) Arrive at a value for the business absent a business appraisal; and 2) Verify the cash flow from the business can service the loan.