If you paid cash for the home then you can easily procure a Line Of Credit from a traditional bank or from a hard money lender.

Advanced option - when you know a pro and not just the company that hires him, he can get a crew of a total of 8 people (10 if bigger) to knock it out in a day if you provide materials, which are easy to procure.

Negotiations took approximately two weeks to nail down between what the client's business consultant recommended and what I was able to procure on the lending side.

I think if you're getting referral kickbacks from bringing in the tenants, even when someone else is writing the lease, I think you're acting as a procuring agent and need to get licensed.Honestly, just go get a real estate license. 

Actually there's a lot more to procuring cause.

Some of the activities are procuring a seller, buyer, landlords or tenants   to carry on real estate business activities.

Also, if you procure your own buyer, you would not pay the buyer's agent commission.Is it possible to do this with a house under contract?

If the Realtor cannot procure a short sale within a certain period of time, the bank will often consider a deed in lieu of foreclosure.  

Because of suggestions, I have  found new sources to help in my property search, I have finished reading the online booklet, procured a realtor, have my ins company on stand by, have my lender on standby.

I hope to meet some great people in the Centex area or if someone has tips on procuring properties in other areas like Louisiana?