Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.You may want to check this post: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate WholesalingFinally -be sure to setup some keyword alerts - especially for "Newark" so you can jump into local conversations.See you around the forums!

One way to stand out from the crowd is to offer a free Home  Seller's Guide on all of your marketing material. 

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If you do have a QI involved then they should be guiding you through this process or you should be running from them as fast as you can.4.

I've been listening to the podcasts a bunch and they always seem to mention this guide when it comes to creative financing so maybe that could give you some help. 

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There are a lot of beginner's guides here, too.Before BP, I went to the library and checked out books and tapes.