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There are a lot of management companies that do strictly commercial and both comm. & residential. We used to do a lot of it, but now we only manage office & retail when we get the leasing commissions from it. If you're looking for the firm to get tenants in there, not just manage, make sure that they have experience in marketing commercial properties or consider splitting the job with a broker for the leasing, and a management co. for the operations end.

Morne, if you're having trouble deciding whether to use your name or a KW rich domain, you may consider getting both. Just make sure to point both domains at your server, as setting up two different hosts can flag you with the search engines as being duplicate content.

In Roswell, GA, you'd get a starter home. The 1500 SF 3/2 single family on a postage stamp, or a low end condo.

If your in a time crunch, consider taking the course online or by CD. You can accelerate your pace if you have the time to do so. I took my agent's test while full time in college, it took me six months. On the other hand, a guy I went to high school with finished the course in two weeks, and was sitting for the state exam in three.

You might also try sending packages/brochures about the property to agents in your area, use "Brokers Protected" or similar language. This will give them the incentive to bring a buyer, and may cut your commission costs in half. If you need an example, PM me, I'll be happy to send you one of our land fliers to use as an example.

Wesley, this is a great reminder that if you don't ask, many times you don't get. Right out of college, when I started in sales, this was one of my most difficult problems to overcome - silly I know. I know many times it is some messed up function of pride that keeps us from doing what is necessary. I work mostly with people much older than I, and I alway enjoy hearing from them about how someone took a risk with them when they were starting out. The point is, experts weren't born that way, they all start somewhere.

PS- I'd be grateful for any tenant or buyer rep. leads in the North Atlanta area.

John, I'm guessing that you are referring to flat fee MLS listing websites and not the vanity single property websites (ie- 123FirstStreet . com). I've helped a couple close friends sell their properties throught the MLS sites and have been generally impressed. What I look for is good contact management in the listings, you know what kind of contact information gets listed on the MLS, how easy it is for buyer to get in touch with them, as well as making sure that a number of pictures and/or VT's get on the MLS's site.

Hardly anything. Going futher out of the city (Atlanta) you can find some lots, mountain land, and maybe some low end single family.

After vacationing in CO for the last few months, I just re-relocated to North Atlanta & found this forum on google. My compliments to the comunity, this is a great site & will surely prove an invaluable resource as I get my real estate career going again.

I've looked at the properties from time to time, but I hardly ever see anyone bidding on them. If so, I wonder how many bidders are serious and ever get the property under contract. I know Ebay has all sorts of equations for pricing a listing of cars, toys, etc. - and some of them are value based. Does anyone know what Ebay's cut would be on real estate?