In addition, licensees advertising without the property owners written authority or indicated that a property is for sale, when in fact they only have the authority of the person under the assignable contract, could be found in violation of the law.

They also have additional services in which you can "rush" the direction of investment & pay minor additional fees for the rush.As far as Guidant Financial Services, they are expenseive, simply because an additional step must be taken to set up the checkbook access which requires an LLC to be formed.

We understand that our source of income would be the lease option fee we charge + income from additional rent (as apposed to what we pay on our option).

Additionally, selling off fractions of a vacation home, may allow an owner to pay down or even pay off the loan they originally took out for purchase of the home.

We would like to expand our land base, we have purchased 200 additional acres in the last year, and there has been another 600+ come for sale since then.

We have been left at the alter every time.

I would venture that the discount rate for the leveraged investment is higher in order to reflect the additional risk.

I agree with Jon, in that the commercial loan frees up your personal credit for additional acquisitions.

I wasn't too good at addition and subtraction (even with a computer program) so I took a chance and hired a part-time bookkeeper.

In addition, yes - you could certainly get a job related to real estate while you're in college.