If I lived in a more expensive area, I would probably have chosen either a different strategy or invested in a different market (probably the latter)I work with overseas and out of state investors that have money to invest, but don't want to have all their funds tied up in one property, so they would rather buy 3-4 diversified properties with a mix of rentals and flips than buy one property.

Usually I won't make multiple applicants pay my screening fee, if my initial meeting is good enough where I accept that tenants appliance and fee, I also have them submit their security deposit for holding, which I don't put in the bank until mutual acceptance between both parties; however, as each adult is paying $53 I wouldn't make applicants pay who might not be chosen.

I did a lot of research beforehand, and while not all of these were the cheapest quotes, they were carefully chosen.

I came into Real Estate while researching different career choices that would allow me three simple things. 1) Have a career/craft to fall back to at any given point in my life. 2) Be my own boss. 3) A means to meeting/building new relationships with other like-minded individuals.I read the majority of Real Estate for dummies, once I identified that Real Estate Investing may be the chosen field which would open doors for me.

Although I may be a little biased :) Fort Wayne has been really good to myself and a couple of BP'ers here that have chosen to invest here too!!

I posted a question about comps about a week ago and the question was primarily to see if the real estate agent I have chosen to help me is the right one or not.

According to persons I've talked to at REIA meetings apparently I've chosen some tough areas to focus on in real estate investing (buying and selling non-performing notes, bird dogging/wholesaling and out of state foreclosure prop owners with the intention to move into a couple flips and buy and holds by the end of this year).I can't focus on all of them at once and have decided to work the bird dogging/wholesaling and note buying at the same time for the next 2 - 3 months to determine which marketing strategies work best for finding leads and establishing relationships with banks for the states I'm interested in.I've known this person for about 10 years and he is very successful at wholesaling/foreclosure/short-sale/flipping.

Honestly, I have always had real estate on the brain, it was going to be my chosen family investment profession regardless of my wife and I's professions, but seeing as I am at home with my kid for now, why waste time waiting to invest when I could just start now?

For an investor focused Realtor, having a mentor in your chosen area of focused is far more valuable than the retail/primary residence focused training regimens of the big national houses like KW and L&F.Best of luck!

I don't like their contracts and have chosen to not post and deals on the site, but they are good for finding new investors.