Although some of these channels might not provide you with the same volume or pipeline of deals that the MLS might provide however, like you said, you're just looking for one or two deals, right?

However there are those courses that do actually feed you some knowledge and not just 3 days of up sell.

There is a small concrete rectangular channel that separates the 2 homes (it's in a subdivision). 

If you have any advice or feed back I would appreciate it.

I have time to search for deals, I just need some guidance hence why I am immersing myself in all the information at biggerpockets and attending local events, as well.I am hungry for success, but I am not desperate for a deal in order to feed my family. 

Just wanted to jot down a few things.I get probably 10 mail pieces a week from various parts of the country on assets we own.. we target the same thing wholesalers do so we get these.I had a few surplus properties so ...

Real estate agents have been feeding the "you get what you pay for" line for years..but do you? 

I don't mind putting in the work, but naturally having a 9-6 to be able to feed my family, I don't foresee any brokerage letting me work on weekends or just nights.Is this assumption incorrect? 

Lastly if you read between the lines on all the feed back.  1)real estate is hard 2)everyone has a hard time with it 3)lots of people are in your position. 

I'm now extremely disclipined in managing exactly where and how much I need to exert and channel for maximum efficiency, what methodologies I need to implement/introduce/test into my systems along with the analytics of such, etc.This is what helped me.