I am in Houston and I have met numerous hungry brokers at groups like this.  

Additional note: I've read numerous accounts of syndicated deals and such, but very little about the intermediate steps to setting up the syndicate. 

I've primarily participated from afar, reading numerous forum posts and listening to about 1/2 of the podcasts.

I sat down in the conference room, and listened to numerous conversations between investors.

However, by the end of 2014, I was helping to organize a Real Estate meetup in Seoul with people I had met through BiggerPockets, had connected with @Joshua Dorkin, @Brandon Turner, and numerous other BP bloggers who came on as guest of our meetup, and had made my first real estate investment in Florida, a state I had never visited with partners I had met online.If you ask me how was able to do all that – the simple answer is hard work.But the hard work actually started in 2013, before I was even thinking about real estate.

I have briefly looked into Spokane, there are numerous properties at low prices at the moment.

I'm searching for the next salesperson course to take in my area so I do plan on getting licensed, and I have already spoken with numerous of local real estate agents in hopes that they could offer me some advice.

I've heard numerous stories on both sides, the ones who fight DNS and the ones who work with them and have yet to hear of anyone beating them one way or another, its best to be their friend.

This site was extremely useful for me and I used it numerous times.  

Essentially when you are purchasing a property to flip; you are (presumably) purchasing that property at a discount, so that after your repairs (known as ARV - After Repair Value); the property will appraise for more than your: cost to purchase the property + cost to rehab the property.In numerical terms, say in an area, the median home is selling for $550k and you can get a property for $280k + $125k in rehab and holding costs (insurance, escrow funds, agent commissions, etc), that will = $405k that you've paid out of pocket.