Basically, there are no deals unless you know someone.

I made some offers to basically see what it would take. 3 of the 4 houses were HUDs.

They are basically making new policies pay for the losses of the past. 

Daniel,I am in a similar position to you - just starting out and trying to learn the basics.

If you have an agent in between you and another principle to the transaction, it is going to be easier to take a hard line in the negotiating stance.  

Basically every dollar spent will be a business expense and every dollar received will be income and the difference after all the dust settles is your profit to be allocated.

Basically, overall we had good tenants up until the last few months.

The others have chimed in already, but a little piece of advice that I have for you if you intend to be an investor friendly agent is to start building up a basic knowledge of both landlording and flipping.

The land immediately north of the current stadium (and proposed stadium site across the street) is basically a war zone with little value.

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