These people on this site are very successful and are willing to blog and give you information for FREE because they care about other peoples success.

I appreciate any guidance on what I should look out for initially, as well as tips and tricks from any of your past lessons learned.I wish everyone here, who cares as much to have read this, success.

I asked If he would take 85K in 1 year. within the next year I would pay him $100 a month to take care of property taxes, I would install new floors, repair drywall, paint in and out, new appliances and light fixtures throughout, new windows and build a custom deck, all at my expense.

Financing is a moving target and one we're watching carefully right now with all the government intervention.

Take care.

Just be careful out there...

Hire a management company to take care of any properties you buy - but do extensive interviews first.

•Buy from sellers who tend not to care: seized, foreclosed, tax sales, corporations, non-profits, disinterested heirs, probate attorneys and private auctions.

Just be careful & use common sense.Jim Watkinswww.dfwmentor.com

Went to a HUD live auction last night. I hadn't bought any HUDs since the early 90s because I thought they were being bid up by inexperienced owner occupants and investors. And at the time I was in Houston so there wa...