1. The top residential real estate agent in your county or in the couple of Michigan cities that you want to buy foreclosures in. For example if you are in Western Wayne - I would find out who is the top real estate residential agent in Garden City, Livonia, Westland, Canton and Belleville is. If I were in the city of Detroit – I would try to find out who the top dog on West Side of Detroit is.
2. The most active FHA lender in your area. There is always ONE in each county. In that office, there is one loan officer who is just killing them. She is the one who can tell you precisely what kind of houses first time home buyers are buying in your county.
3. A really good company to fix bad credit. Lots of folks have bad credit right now. Some of them intentional. Some of them just by a stroke of bad circumstances. It would not hurt that when you come across potential buyers who have bad credit but want to buy your homes or may be you even have renters in your houses that you might want to help to get their credit fixed so they buy these homes from you. Lots of scammers out there in the credit fix up industry so try to find a local company who can give you good references and check on those references.
4. A great Property Inspector who knows his business. I know a great one in metro Detroit – send me an email to mark@markijlal.com if you need his phone number.
5. A fast appraiser. Refinances are dead. So when an appraiser wants five days to get me back a report – my blood pressure starts to go up. That is just laziness. Work with a local guy in your city and not some faceless corporation located 400 miles away.
6. Me.
7. The top commercial real estate broker who can find you good apartment deals in your Michigan County. This is for future for most but nothing wrong in going in checking out what is going on the other side of fence in commercial deals.




Can I add "a good tax pro" to your list?
Someone who is licensed; who has significant experience in real estate; who works doing taxes and business advisory services full time.