She's been great, organizing, clarifying, negotiating, researching, advising.

I would research the property manager before going with them.

I live not to far away, and do research in your area also.

I'm a complete newbie, and doing my research..I decided to look on the web at tax records for some of the house I found on Realtytrac.

Dig, dig, dig and do your research.

I told him I would do some research and see if it would be beneficial for us to put the $ and time into schooling & licensing.

hello everyone, well anyway i'm a new investor and after some research i decided to focus on pre-foreclosures.well anyway i was told of a strategy that i could use that didn't involve the use of any of my money or credit and will allow me to actually retail these properties to end-buyers and not just wholesale them for a small profit to other investors, it sort of goes like this.1- locate and market to the people in pre-foreclosure, 2- once they contact me setup an appointment with them, 3- setup a land trust with them ( which they will be the beneficiaries and either me or a disinterested party the trustee)and have them sign a "warranty deed to trustee" doc which i will record at the my local court house, 4- also have them sign over there beneficiary interest to you which you'll store away for protection of problems that might come up in the future 5- start marketing the property as well as working on the short sale with there lender, 6- once i have my end-buyer (and hopefully my short sale is accepted in time) have my title company perform a double closing to pay off the first lender as well as myself, and to give the end-buyer clear title without any seasoning issues coming up (which i was told there has to be two separate HUD's, two separate escrow accts and etc)so my questions are: do i have all the steps down correctly or am i missing something?

When I started to research this, what I had in mind was simple, I wanted to "flip" a house.

actually im learning that the more research i do i need to look to contact local agents anyways.

Others just let me know when they're ready to make a move, and I research what's available that meets their requirements.I still end up having to comb through a lot of listings manually, of course, but knowing how to work the database of a large city's MLS makes my life a lot easier.Good luck!