The reason being, it's tough to get through that first one, but if you do, everything after that seems very, very easy...

Still a lot of workers and not enough housing?

It would be tough to pull any equity out at this time with such little wiggle room.Two questions:Price dropped on May 14th by 6.7% Should I wait for the price to continue dropping before making a bid?

I'm a social worker for the program in my area. 

According to persons I've talked to at REIA meetings apparently I've chosen some tough areas to focus on in real estate investing (buying and selling non-performing notes, bird dogging/wholesaling and out of state foreclosure prop owners with the intention to move into a couple flips and buy and holds by the end of this year).I can't focus on all of them at once and have decided to work the bird dogging/wholesaling and note buying at the same time for the next 2 - 3 months to determine which marketing strategies work best for finding leads and establishing relationships with banks for the states I'm interested in.I've known this person for about 10 years and he is very successful at wholesaling/foreclosure/short-sale/flipping.

I first became interested in this business last year when a fellow real estate investing co-worker took it upon himself to educate me in all the benefits of owning investment properties.

I am a hard worker and fast learner.

The payouts are usually higher but you have a ton of risk and financing on those deals is very tough to get.

My understanding is the P.A. has 4 or more brokers that the county is working with, so this may be tough. but per Rick Harmon on another probate site, any evidence of a listing agreement??

Fix and flipping seems tough because its hard to find starting properties with enough room to turn a profit after all the costs.