Yes, I've sold homes and land for people I've never met, but I always prefer to meet a person in the flesh.

For example, if your total construction costs (land, soft+hard costs, etc) is $150/sqft and you can sell your house for $200/sqft, then you make $50/sqft regardless of whether you build 1500sqft or 2000sqft.But what I have to assume is that at some point, the payoff is no longer linear and I'll begin to hit diminishing returns.

Hello my name is Arsenio or Ari for short. I am from the Bay Area I graduated from college last year, work full time, and I am looking to get into real estate. I have lurked on here and various podcasts for about 6 mo...

I'd probably put a stronger clause in a new agreements about keeping the visible aspects of the property in good shape and enforce that.  

They are just as bad as cars - after they're off the lot they lose a hefty % of their value.I have been doing land home deals similar to @Curt Smithand do everything in my power to close under 20K and put under 10K into them before renting out the homes - eventually establishing credit for the tenant and selling it.  

There are revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, self-settled trusts, land trusts, gun trusts, medicaid planning trusts.......the list goes on and on. 

If you've experienced no costs, the guy left willingly and left the unit in good shape(no residual odor, etc), I don't see any reason to penalize him financially.If the guy takes you to small claims for the deposit, how are you going to prove that he was indeed doing this in the unit?

Thankfully, I landed the job, but the downside of this job was it was about 30 miles from my place.  

If you think you will go FHA, 203k, etc. and then Quit Claim the property, to a LLC, or a Land Trust you run the risk of the lender discovering a Title Transfer occurred and activating the "Acceleration Clause" or "Due on Sale Clause" that requires the loan to be paid in full, within 'x' number of days.

Hey all, I recently started with some direct mail for unimproved raw land.