I've read nearly all the posts on this website and am particularly grateful for the insightful and very analytical posts by seasoned investors. 

Would love to discuss effective strategies for investing in these areas.As to what brought me here, I was brought here by the "Thanksgiving Special" and free audio from the 2012 Summit (which has been superb).Thanks to all for your time/contributions and I look forward to engaging in the BP community.Cheers,Erik

I would argue that if they provide a superb service, paying 12% would make sense. 

I'm an IT Engineering Consultant (in the Data & Analytics space) looking to make a full-time switch to real estate, and the auctions are one of the places I look to get my deals.More to Zach's point, you can do more deals if you have more money.  

This is for future analytic purposes so I can determine what % of 1 list resulted in 1 item of another list, etc.

Maybe I could buy you a cup of coffee sometime.I am analytical, and it's easy to get stuck in analysis.

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/608-E-23rd-S...Here's the calculations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ieez4soHg...I just kind of did this as an exercise to test my analytical skills and see if other more savvy investors think that I'm calculating things correctly. 

I want to start off as a buy and hold, but I was told to try flipping to get my feet wet in that process and fall back on buy and hold if it doesn't work out.My background is in analytics, my wife is a Realtor and sold new homes in CA.

Very analytical and without any apparent bias.

I am a software engineer for MLB by day and have always been an analytically thinking guy.