Yes; for commercial deals and getting on board with the lingo.

I had to wait until recently to take action with RE because I needed to line up a job first and pass my boards.

auction.com website hosting bank owned, there seems more possibility to do hard money.as a rule if you're dealing with a county's auction directly even hosted by aucton.com that defaults to county, I would not use a lender (hard money company) regulated  by the state or national level) and i dont think they can fulfill a county auction closing timeline and you lose your deposit.

One of the HOA board members came in to take a look and she said that they most likely will cover the cost to do a spot treatment and will discuss the issue seriously at the next board meeting.

Welcome to BP Nation, always nice to have another SFV investor and BP Member here.I do single family and multi family developments, general contracting, and more.

Nothing is ever "no way jose" (not sure if there's any national origin implication in your phrase) it all depends on your investment criteria, your cash return vs. dealing with tenants.

What they took was the nearly $7,000 profit after all expenses were paid back at closing After claiming there was miraculously $7,000 of expenses that were needing paid back prior to me coming on board that was never once talked about in the nearly 7 months of working on the project...

You can search by location and hopefully find someone that is a good fit.XY Planning Network Find an AdvisorGarrett Planning Network Search for an AdvisorNAPFA Find an AdvisorThe CFP Board has put together a list of questions to ask a prospective financial advisor.

I’ve have also used NTN - National Tenant Network, there reports are very in depth but more expensive,  but very good.

With your brother, get him to a good tax guy (many are on board here) that can also explain the long term advantages of paying something into social security, that would be more educational than a book he probably will not read.