Hi allI'm planning to buy a laptop to use at home, office and in the car to look at real estate deals.

I run my business from home office; therefore, very often you can find me with laptop, coffee and ashtray full of cigarette butts at 3 AM.

Now the deeds of trust at the county clerk's office won't actually show what they bought it for, but they will show you what the original note amount was.

I work for A+A Mortgage company as a loan officer.

Even the agents have to carefully track their brokers to keep them from calling in an offer after they have knowledge that the agent is bringing in a contract.

Ideally, it would provide QucikBooks-type reports and info for tax purposes, as well as track investments and expenditures in other investments.

I suggest locating your local HUD office and finding out.

Kenneth Fach, REALTOR, e-PROKeller Williams Town and Country RealtyEach office is individually owned and operated.

I know rules are set by the state you are renting in, but what office in my state would I need to go to in order to get a listing of what I can and can't do as a landlord?

However its still really hard for us newbie investors with no proven track record to get a bank large or small to give us a loan on an investment with none of our own "skin in the game" so to speak.