I've been soaking up the massive wealth on information on here and I must say I'm quite impressed with how knowledgeable most of the members of this forum are.I graduated college last May and currently work in marketing at a financial planning firm that I interned with during school. 

Any qualified agent representing the buyer will build in refundable component of the EMD in the contract.There is no typical closing window.

Last summer I Interned with Marcus & Millichap a commercial real estate brokerage.

BNI is Business Network International a referral based group of professionals in my area that I meet with on a weekly basis.

As far as I was told, note: I am not an attorney, and this is no legal advice, a single member LLC where your are the member has almost no asset protection component.

My understanding of the investment visa is that you will need a company set up to invest into.I know I can help with the operations component if you are thinking of establishing a real estate business.

I have a degree in International Relations and I am about to finish a degree in Law.

JUDGMENT AND LIEN INSTRUMENTS Document Type: Judgment Execution Date: 08/07/2000 Instrument No: U627719 Recorded Date: 09/18/2000 Amount: $14,525.66 Holder: STATE OF TEXAS ----------------------------------------------- Document Type: Judgment Execution Date: 09/13/2005 Instrument No: Z039170 Recorded Date: 01/20/2006 Amount: $14,570.70 Holder: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE ----------------------------------------------- Document Type: Judgment Execution Date: 08/31/2005 Instrument No: Z112380 Recorded Date: 02/24/2006 Amount: $1,172.00 Holder: THE STATE OF TEXAS ----------------------------------------------- Document Type: Judgment Execution Date: 05/04/2009 Instrument No: 20090564462 Recorded Date: 12/15/2009 Amount: $15,953.12 Holder: WACHOVIA DEALER SERVICES, INC.

You want to compare the surplus per year, along with the replacement schedule and make sure they're on track to have enough $ built up to replace them without a special assessment in N years (where N is the remaining useful lifetime of the component). 

ON the Resi side of course you can do a little of both.. but you will see that the larger commercial deals are not put on MLS and they are not put on Loopnet or Coaststar  unless the house could not move them internally.