Always, I repeat ALWAYS do a full and complete analysis on a deal and NEVER NEVER ever purchase a property just based on any of these so called Rules.You may be very sorry that you didMake it HappenSteve

Recently Baton Rouge has had what they call a 500 year flood and I would really like to rebab some of these homes that are coming onto the market from that event. 

Best way to get a mentor is call a bandit sign and ask for a job.. learn while working for someone.. any bandit sign is a potential mentor.

Show up to your local lender's office with transcripts and something showing your job description/responsibilities/duties in-hand.In my area, we call this the "Tech Wizard Special" because the CompSci guys go from being starving college students to $250k/yr working for Google overnight, but often without a long-established credit history and only a few months on the job.

After trying to reach him all day yesterday (former mortgage contingency date), he finally called me at 7PM with his usual completely unfounded confidence and said that the file should be through U/W by Friday and we’ll close next week.

@Matt Brechting just give me call and we will schedule a meet. 

I received a call about a week ago from a gentlemen named Cesar with a home in a town by me.

You must be able to document a lower FAIR MARKET VALUE.You will actually recognize the step up in basis at that time.Feel free to PM me or call me and I'm happy to explain it.

Then I got the phone call from our company; we are not getting payroll for another 2 months.

I also thought it didn't seem very professional and I doubt would get me to make a call.