While I am sure it wasn't very funny to you at the time, I'd bet that a story about the yard of your rental being dug up in order to facilitate a mud wrestling showdown has to be a crowd favorite at parties.I am curious, though; did you make any attempt to recover the damages done to your property? 

I got a "prior military" discount and it was a sizable discount. (10 or 20 percent. dont remember exactly)The class was professionally facilitated and worthwhile. 

I created a mastermind group which facilitates knowledge sharing and leads.

Walking on the wild side as a wholesaler has enough issues without paying birddogs a fee to facilitate a sale, need to form some service performed by your birddog to stay away from paying unlicensed folks.

With a license you will have more access to information and data on the MLS, you can facilitate the necessary paperwork and contracts, as well as grow your RE network (in addition to what @Lynn Montang mentioned above.

Hello All...I am interested in peoples opinion about markets around the country where you can still find good cash flowing apartment buildings...With cap rates as compressed as they are now, its getting harder and harder for a project to cash flow.I would love to hear peoples opinion on where the good stable cash flow marks are these days.....I am talking about markets with a enough people in them to facilitate being able to find a good property manager and also a market big enough to have enough of a population base to supply a supply of tenants to keep it occupied.

CoStar is used extensively by us brokers to facilitate the transacting of property.

And that is the main problem with these Turnkeys.  95% of the providers/facilitators have no clue what they are doing. 

Specialty firms typically referred to as IRA facilitators and advisors perform this type of legal service.If you qualify as self-employed and have no full time employees, a Solo 401(k) is also going to provide checkbook control, and as a retirement plan has several advantages over the comparable IRA LLC. 

You will typically need to submit quotes for the improvements when you apply for the mortgage and those funds will be held-back until the work is completed.I would suggest that you come to know and understand the process and mathematics behind evaluating a deal and projecting it's "after repair value", then develop your own spreadsheet - or, as we have done, software tools - to facilitate your analysis.