If you challenge them at all, someone in the leadership politely suggest you attend a breakfast meeting where more dialogue can be put forth.

Each time the market came back after some individuals suffered pain.Your view?

Some or many of those buildings are worth $40 million per individual building.How about your model works for your company by using other investors to team up.

I feel that right now (the next 2 years) I should be gaining knowledge about REI, eliminating debt, saving for an emergency fund, obtaining a full time position in the field I would like to work in, and obtaining a house for myself first.However I see that some individuals say start right now.

I have been active in another "mentor type" network and feel that it is time to spread my wings and venture into other venues.Would love to network with other like minded individuals in the area.R.

Some REOs do get sold in bulk or individually to external firms prior to listing.

To remind people of my situation, I am looking for individual properties not bulk because that is all I can afford at this time.

I was searching the individual bank sites for their available properties.

Ashman,When dealing in financial matters the word guarantee generally can not be used if you are talking about the return.As an individual your ability to guarantee anything is only as good as your credit and the resources you have.Best to avoid the term and describe why the deal makes sense even if you were to be run over by a bus or otherwise not able to perform.Paying yourself no fee to manage the properties tends to mean that your focus will be somewhere else.

The average price of each is $700KThe builder wants to sell them all or individually at market price and give a check back at closing for 75K to 100K per house.