By em lunch for it or something.

The best thing you can do when you feel like you have found a good contractor or service provider is treat them fairly but firmly.

Join a Brokerage firm, become a member of the local board, get MLS access.

Property management, working for a construction company or developer, working at an architectural firm.

Remember to seperate the lease contract from the option contract, that way if they default it is real ez to give em the boot.

It won't be firm until they 66 contracts signed.IF the deal falls apart I am quite sure there will be others (higher) but these will take longer.

BOA is going to require someone licensed to negotiate the deal, so my suggestion is either hire a 3rd party firm to negotiate, or find a Realtor you trust that is investor friendly that can do it.

I typically buy as low as possible, fix 'em up a bit and sell them on contract.Looking forward to continue learning from all of you on this site and expanding my own investing.Tim

I use a firm that specializes in this type of law.

They know as well as everyone else that the U.S. govt would default on many of their budgetary obligations before they default on their debt (that was the big risk of not increasing the debt ceiling); which means that unless you think the country is going to fold in the short-term, there is essentially no risk to buying treasuries.Don't get me wrong -- I firmly believe that if this country doesn't take some major steps towards financial reform very soon, we will eventually "go under," but I don't see that happening in the next few years.