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IE timber owners many times had these properties through a few generations waiting for the timber to mature..

In wholesaling, if a real estate agent gives you a lead on a house and you end up putting it under contract and successfully assigning it to an end buyer, is it legal to give the real estate agent a percentage of the assignment fee?

If your plan of flipping homes leads you to your "Critical Mass" point, then by all means execute on your vision vigorously. 

This should save me money on my own future deals, while also helping me gain credibility within the industry and my local area as a serious real estate investor and deal maker.As for my professional background, I have been working as a freelance social media marketing strategist for 7+ years helping B2B companies generate and nurture high-quality leads on LinkedIn.

If I dumped all my cash into this (I also have stocks and crypto etc, so I am diversified) I could in theory generate enough income to reach my goal, however I am nervous that buying in a different metro may have been a much better option, or buying C grade SFRs and duplexes in a peaky market will comeback to ruin me, or buying apartment buildings / complexes would have been a much better option.Also if I want to buy apartments, how do I accomplish that?

State taxes should have a minimal effect on evaluation if you live in CA (excluding property tax) because my understanding of how the income would be taxed is (state income was generated in taxes first if it is a higher rate than CA no further tax, if it is lower rate CA takes what you paid the other state into account and taxes the rest of the way up to their normal rate)  Hopefully that made a bit of sense it is difficult to explain in text format.

Is there a program that I can put the apn into that will quickly generate addresses?

I signed up for Lead Propeller the other day and the page doesn’t work at all (404 error).

Hello, long story short I’ve been networking and looking at properties for a few years now. Personally funded my first SF prop in Sep of 17 and now looking at multi family units. Currently in Los Angeles prospecting p...