This is something very tough for my mom and so I'm trying to step in and take some of the workload and pressure off her plate.

Regarding the mentorship, this post may be prove to be a great read: How Do I Find A Mentor?

Tenants who conserve won't want to pay for those who are wasteful and you have no way of proving who uses how much.

This makes it easy to meet the Patriot Act requirements on proving the source of funds as well.She is not unique except that she was the first to invest with us.As for the third party accreditation services, I am told by my attorney there is no case law proving that provides any protection to you.

So unless you have some strong evidence, I would just give them the benefit of the doubt since it's military related.. tough situation to be in.. for both of you I'm sure.Sometimes you're better off doing what makes sense, rather than what can technically tried to be done from a legal perspective..

Anything the news tells you is a place to be is going to be tough to get really good deals.You have a lot of people flocking there to buy stuff and people that don't know the area and are just getting into investing will pay more just because they don't know any better if nothing else.So if you are wholesaling it will be hard to compete if you have to buy stuff at <65% to be able to sell the established investors at 70% when they can by at 75% to resell to newer guys at 80+%.

Distressed property + Rehab = FMV (ARV) FMV-costs=profit Not tough.

That's a tough one.

Eastern Worcester county is a tough market.

I've heard about some tough situations with liens and brankruptcy filings.Is there anything you do (or can do) to investigate bankruptcies before purchaing a lien?