Thanks Mike, at the time I started this business I was also considering the IT consulting route, but had a lot of cheap HR for Mortgages and had to make a decision - Stick with what I know, or learn to know what I had more resources for.

Cause its cheap?

Let me suggest that when you shop for text books or law books say on Amazon (no plug intended) that you can certainly target some of the older books as basic concepts in law have been around hundreds of years, so getting a book published in 1992 will probably be just fine and best of all.....CHEAP!

He bought the houses really cheap from sellers or the bank because most of the others didn't want it.He could do the foundation work for just materials and a fraction of labor with his company for cheap compared to other flippers and make really fat profits of 50k or more.So that's the advantage in that you find a company that specializes in the problem your property has and to them they can rehab and make the numbers work where others just see risk.All the best.

My DIY yellow letter costs:Yellow Paper $0.02Envelope $0.10Ink $0.02Postage $0.28Total $0.43If I got cheap envelopes I could go even cheaper ($0.35) but I got nice blue invitation envelopes

They're so cheap to set up these days...in some cases free.My second deal contacted me via my website.

I’ve seen in posts and in books advice to newbie investors to find cheap properties in low income areas, but to stay away from properties “in a war zoneâ€.

Have you thought of buying a cheap place up north to technically change your residency to another county to get your CCW permit (which is good statewide, as I understand)?

It did not end up being cheap to run either- we paid the electric bills.

I want to buy cheap HUD homes and resell them with seller financing to people who can't get mortgages.