It is not a bad neighbourhood, avg middle class neighbourhood near a train station.

Of course, he was pushing extra cost "training," and talking about "contract sales" being a good idea.

You have to prove that you've done your homework which may or may not involve taking some sort of formal training/education. 

All I had to do there was to pay the fees and take a training class.

The so called training is negligible and impersonal.

Yes you can train and train them but many do not follow directions or skip steps because they are lazy.Just like for property management you need hundreds of doors with structure to start making any kind of decent money.There are people out there who do crazy volume just to make a little buck.

Then try to find something that can match the carpet color and see if its possible to stain the stain.If you can have a train the trainer.

(I'm a big fan of 15 year loans).The people I know who went belly up either had adjustable or balloon loans that couldn't be refinanced, or they jumped off the train while the ride was still wild.

My mentor said that to make it worth his time to train me, he would like me to commit to work with him for 12 months on a 30% commission schedule, and sign a non-compete agreement, basically agreeing to run all deals through his business.

I am not from the Austin area, but will be there from later this afternoon until Friday morning for training for work.