If you stick with that line of thinking, you will be WAY ahead of most of your peers in a few years. :)

Then they went ahead and talked about closing costs etc and I got out of them that they had only purchased the house for 5K and that it needs to be closed by the 14th of October.Mind you, this is a company that has lots of houses under contract.Do you think it would be ok to come back to this offer and offer them maybe 6K?

You are so far ahead if you have someone that close you can learn from!

By getting a list ahead of time that is more narrowed down I can pinpoint buyers who are buying exactly what I am selling.Once I have the list I cross reference the county tax records to see who bought the home....Then I contact the owners directly.Students of mine have built sizeable lists in under 7 days.I actually thought of this method myself when i was a newbie Realtor trying to find a shortcut for locating investors.

I downloaded free trial yesterday and it seems leaps and bounds ahead of quickbooks/peachtree, in terms of user friendliness as well.

We've gone ahead and implemented this change for you.

Andy is correct. i think we actually just discussed this a few days ago Steve so looks like you're ahead of the game pal.

Tiger-Wow, you're light years ahead me when I was 17 (and probably most of your peers) in terms of business maturity .... sounds like you're already focused on what you want in life and how you are going to get it.

How can we pre-determine if a property falls under the new HAFA guidelines ahead of time?

Can that agent just go ahead and represent me and the homeowner would be unrepresented?