I also have a few REO questions and can't find the answers through the Search function.

If they have an office or place of business you can meet them there, or you can seek them out at functions designed to draw the right type of crowd.

I think the down is really a function of the debt service coverate ratio.

So I can easily check to make sure the fridge is functioning correctly at move-in.)

Some people would argue that you should use OPM to the largest extent possible, even if it means leveraging yourself to the point where you risk being upside-down on properties if values decline.

My normal assignment fee is 10K but have made as little as 5K but on my largest deal I made 84K on one property (definitely a double close).

The largest new construction project was a new prison in Jefferson City Missouri.

Sure, its the June 19, 2008 Realty Times, "Holding Property in an LLC Just Got Tougher" by Diane Kennedy"Freddie Mac, one of the two largest underwriters of conforming loans on the secondary market, have changed their internal rules to state that they will no longer refinance a property that has been inside of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) for any time within the past 6 months."

Use the search function in upper right, or just read all of the posts in the REO forum (there are not that many really and a lot of good learning contained therein).

Go into the creative financing forum or use the search function on BP for wholesaling.