Hey guys, my name is Tom Doan and I'm currently a senior at the McCombs School of Business at UT studying finance.

Second, you have the right approach to study, study, study.

What's great is when you get someone good on government assistance where the checks roll in regularly.However, you may be limited in your exit strategies to selling to other investors who will want a steep discount, or selling as a lease-option, which has its own pitfalls.I view it as investing in high-return CDs -- if I can sell it for what I put in it then I'm happy with my rate of return for the holding period.

since my options here are grossly limited, i've been looking abroad to find a market to begin investing in.

You need an education in executory contracts.In NM you can lease, and buy on sub2 or a wrap or seller financing.Get a team together that knows what to do.The contracts I use in a sub2 areThe Purchase And Sale AgreementSeller's Due-On-Sale AcknowledgementThe Quit Claim Deed To TrusteeGet An Authorization To Release Mortgage InformationGet A Limited Power Of AttorneyUpdating The Insurance CoverageControlling The Escrow AccountIf The Mortgage Company Calls The Loan Due What to DoAddendum To Purchase And Sale Agreement Quit Claim Deed To TrusteeAuthorization To Release Mortgage InformationLimited Power Of Attorney Regarding Real EstateInsurance Letter (Adding Additionally Insured)Escrow LetterLetter To Mortgage Company Good luck!

Is Litton one of the servicing companies that keeps the negotiators off limits, or do I just have to try to entice her to call me via fax or e-mail?

A guru I studied with suggested placing "fake property ads" as others have suggested-it did work but was not my first choice.

When I say cash, or lines of credit, I base that on many of the properties in the Midwest being below much of the loan limits out there.

David sent me a bunch of files and I started to study the anatomy of an XSitePro website.At first my intention was only to understand the anatomy of a website created with XSitePro.

What I mentioned was a database of the "financial" newspaper for the county.When things are required to be published, as you spoke of, they have an option of which newspaper(s) to use.A database of the newspaper that the selling entity uses to advertise their tax sales in would be useful to those of us looking for any sales list.It would also limit our having to search through all the thousands of legal ads in every newspaper in the county/state.It would also be very interesting to find out how many of those newspapers are online.