Marketing,talking to sellers, property evaluation,contracts,selling the deal, etc and wrote down everything I'd need to do or learn4.

Based on a properties characteristics, experience will tell you of the hidden potential problems a buyer could run into during a rehab and nothing will cement their trust in you more than when they see your evaluation of the property and the numbers prove out.

Structure the deal so that you are protected by only giving money upon signing, possession and receipt of marketable title or similar progressive event conditions required to release funds.

Hello All,Looking for some experienced pros to evaluate my progress in this business so far.I'm a newb to this and haven't gotten my first deal.

My current challenges are evaluating my target markets, after reading article after article, some markets I've identified are Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Dallas & Fresno.

I am working on the evaluation of the related competition and also on my price estimates for doing it both ways.

There are basically 3 ways to get licensed: - Correspondence with a book (what I did): fast but no networking - Online: medium speed and no networking - Live classes: slow speed but networking In my case I wanted to get licensed as fast as possible so I did it with the book, which I could just carry around with me and progress fast.

Re-evaluate the deal based on the detailed bids you received.

Dear BPs, I am a newbie evaluating loan terms from a commercial mortgage broker.

Hi Jim,My goal like yours is to focus on investment properties (progressing towards bigger commercial projects) however if you want to do this full time, I would recommend also working on the "traditional" methods.Here's why:1) Time: unless you're doing it part time, there is just not that much you can do with a small pool of homes such as investment properties.