All Forum Posts by: Jean Norton

You can get an account at Pacer.gov. Search for the previous owner's name in the district of the property. They charge 10 cents per page. Good luck!

"Where's the Medium Money Lender?" - New blog post.

http://www.jeannorton.com/hard-money-conventional-financing-can-meet-middle/

I have received hard money loans on a Land Trust, but I haven't heard of any conventional financing working that way. Are there other beneficiaries in the land trust? Are any of them a corporation or an LLC? If so, and the business is over 2 years old, you may be able to apply for a business line of credit or other business loan. If you want to use that property as security, you will most likely have to change the deed.

Best to put it in the name of a Trust. You can even call it "the *sellers name* family trust". Then he can transfer the beneficial interest of the trust to you. You will want to find a title company or attorney that can help you do this.

Hi, I bought a condo in Daytona Beach. Here are the surprises: you need to "quiet the title", which means hire an attorney so you can sell it to someone else. If you want to keep the property for yourself, then no need to go through that action.

Second, most of the HOA's will try to bully you to pay the previous owners arrears. If you end up in that situation I can send you the name of the attorney I used that got me out of that.

Pretty much useless.

There are a few others that are cheaper - beenverified and publicdata scan public information from various sources.

Yes, I get a lot of properties from auction.com - Basically they will take the highest bid to the seller to see if the bid is acceptable. Sometimes they will accept that highest offer and sometimes they don't. I say don't be afraid, if the numbers work for you, go for it.

Best place to look for real estate investing networking meetings is on meetup.com.

There are a few thoughts about condos, many of which scare away investors. However, with less investor competition, I've personally done OK. Answer: beware of extra rules with the HOA.