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On Tuesday, August 1, 1995, I took a group of investors to a monthly Bexar County (the San Antonio metropolitan area) tax sale to teach them how to research properties coming up for sale and to provide them with an opportunity to bid on and, hopefully, buy a property....

Let's start with the basics. The concept of a "Buyer's Briefcase" is to have the right forms necessary to "sign up" a transaction at your fingertips at all times. It's kinda like a salesman with his order pad. When someone wants to give you the order, you need to be...

It happens all the time. I'm driving down a road I haven't been on in months, turn the corner and BOOM. There it is--a vacant house. Hmmmmm....this could be interesting, but I'll need to do a little checking before getting my hopes up. My first stop is the tax...

On Tuesday, August 1, 1995, I took a group of investors to a monthly Bexar County (the San Antonio metropolitan area) tax sale to teach them how to research properties coming up for sale and to provide them with an opportunity to bid on and, hopefully, buy a property....

Let's start with the basics. The concept of a "Buyer's Briefcase" is to have the right forms necessary to "sign up" a transaction at your fingertips at all times. It's kinda like a salesman with his order pad. When someone wants to give you the order, you need to be...

It happens all the time. I'm driving down a road I haven't been on in months, turn the corner and BOOM. There it is--a vacant house. Hmmmmm....this could be interesting, but I'll need to do a little checking before getting my hopes up. My first stop is the tax...