Half of my kids will be attorneys specializing in contingency cases.The other half of my kids will be attorneys specializing in drawing up deeds, writing sandwich lease options, evicting tenants, creating LLCs and land trusts, and so forth.And the last half of my kids will become politicians.Man, can you spell 'return on investment'?!

REO buying or REI is a full time job.I hear sometimes they spend sleepless nights researching the bounty.I dont honestly think some one doing that really has time to post in forums trying to help create competitors.

I am starting out in commercial real estate as a broker and i was wondering what type of software you guys use to create marketing packages and if you use other software to aid you in researching properties and numbers.Do you have something to create charts and show returns over the course of the investment?

Or, if you had 10k passive loss year 1, and 7k passive gain year 2, you could deduct 3k loss from earned income year 1, and year 2 would be a wash.There are other ways to create unlimited passive losses against ordinary income, however you need to be a real estate professional (as described and recognized by the IRS) which means you have to meet two requirements: 1. you spend 750 hours per year minimum on your real estate business, and 2.

With the Sub Prime fiasco hitting most every U.S. market, creates a great market for investors.

In addition to Jon's post, creating a Partnership LLC would also be a way to structure a deal.

Fannie Mae, which creates the guidelines for most lenders to follow, does not have a seasoning time to use the actual appraisal value.

I created a system where I used private money for a few hours, purchased a deep discount property, had my end buyer lined up (owner occupant not needing fha), put the two together and snatched the spread in the same day.It worked every time!

I advised them from the get go that no matter who does the rehab - when they do a pre-rehab walkthrough of the property with the property manager to have the property manager create a scope of work with them and to bring this scope of work to the rehabber after it was determined.

No they will not give you a phone number - but they will give the name and address of the property that is in default - you can then be a sleuth and figure out the the telephone number - send them a letter - or just drop in if you are up to that sort of thing.Yeah it seems to be pretty confidential but it's not!