Thanks @Ty Flip Man ! And back in Chicago for sightseeing with my California investor. (She has never been to Chicago before & never had a Friday night fish fry or Chicago deep dish pizza!) So work hard, play hard! Taking her to see a few sights before we both fly out Saturday night! She is going back to California and I am flying to NYC for a Note Investing Conference with one of my mentors & meeting with a new investor (husband & wife) in Connecticut plus one in New Jersey. A lot of what I do ongoing is raise more Capital from Individual Investors, prefer when they are Accredited for our bigger deals. Always thinking a few chess moves ahead. A great book is “Dig Your Well Before You Are Thirsty” by Harvey McKay. I always have a focus on building relationships and referal business.

@Ty Flip Man actually, not many surprises, since I have been active in real estate for many years now and many were very nice houses that you or I would live in and about 50% either redeemed or got pulled and we had concerns about 4 of them and so we only had 8 to bid on today, and all the ones we bid on got bid up about double of what we were hoping to pay, and that is part of the game. It is a numbers game and we have another auction tomorrow morning!

@Audrey Pray thank you!

@Steve Hennigan congratulations! Keep up the great work!

@Dorothy King thank you for your post! I joined this group as a BUYER! So let’s talk! @Ty Flip Man will tell you (I think) that the easiest part is finding a buyer if you have a truly great deal! At least that has been MY experience for over 30 years! Of course every detail matters, like location & condition & fewer people are buyers for a fire damage or gut rehab than a simple one.

@Ty Flip Man at the moment my focus is mostly tax sales in multiple states: bought 3 tax deeds in Kansas last week and leaving Chicago around 6:30 am CST for Indiana where I will participate in two tax lien sales this week and then I fly to NYC for a note conference (I both create seller finance notes & buy NPN non performing debt) and then I have back in Kansas & a trip to Alabama in November. And I have a new associate I am training in Savannah, Georgia to bring me leads there for buy and hold. I prefer 3/2 from 1,200 to 1,800 sq feet moderate repairs and I normally buy for cash at the hard money formula of ARV X 70% less repairs: pretty simple, a $200K house for $100K