Does anyone have an example of joining with other buy-and-hold investors in their area to employ a handyman (and possibly a helper ) to cut maintenance costs?

Sorry I haven't gotten back earlier.The Trust was simply a privacy thing.

The rougher neighborhoods were cut in half by the crash and the full on war zone neighborhoods are now nearly worthless.

However, having a few lots simply adds options.

The only reason I say this is because from my research, any "boilerplate" contracts out there just don't cut it.

This is a short sale so I may place a backup offer but I have a feeling 100k won't cut it.

But a comment one person made on a gurus video saying, "why would anyone go through the trouble of pulling up comps and getting information on a house and simply bird dogging, when they can just as easily whole sale it?"

At the point we were expecting to simply proceed to closing, the guy stopped calling.

Birddogging is even harder because you're making a much smaller paycheck and the buyer and seller can easily cut you out of the deal.You might think about getting licensed and getting a job as a RE agent.

There is simply too many vacant properties and not enough new listings/reo's to go with them.