Client was there ever other day and had builder to instruct workers not to answer questions but have them talk to their agent.

The owner had hired a "contractor" without a license, thus making the workers his employee.

The property was foreclosed on and he owned it since 2000, did a bunch of illegal additions which I now need to clean up in order to get the 350k lien mitigated.There is just a whole bunch of stuff I don't "get".

I have seen a lot of illegal mods lately.

A co-worker told me about an auction on his street.

And while the profitability of the investment will suffer, it won't be the total disaster people seem to anticipate.Please understand this; if done correctly with full disclosures between buyer and seller, there is nothing illegal, immoral, underhanded or unethical about purchasing a property subject to an existing mortgage.

I’ve seen articles and heard podcast that suggest this would give me an equitable interest in the property and enable me to legally market it (without a real estate license) and then do a double close2) Secure a special power of attorney from the owner granting me the authority act on their behalf to market the property for a defined period of time and receive a portion of the profit from any sale at closing.Any thoughts on either of these approaches or any other approaches that would might be legal / illegal, particularly in Texas?

If he was in the appliance business and she was an office worker and he had a license but no real estate business was conducted with those customers and she met the same customers, he has no basis to claim them as RE clients or customers if she later sells a place to those customers.

It is a nice clause and a prompt payment discount sounds so much less punitive than a late fee.However the Mass legislature doesn't think so and it is illegal as it is just considered to be a disguised late fee.

It's not a bad idea except for the moving and I would think the flipper would not want anyone in there during all the work I know I would not,, causes to many hassles like more insurance, moving your stuff around the workers, workers getting in when they want to etc.