Mysteriously, Zillow said it sold last September, part of the pandemic exodus from the cities, I am sure.

Get references, interview them, mystery shop them, and know their capabilities. 

No mystery here, you are showing Reserve % Funded ranging from 45% down to 27%.

The overall theme of this thread is whether one should spend any money at all on a mentor.90% or more of these deals go through brokers one way or another.. if the 20k is to learn how to buy off market and you are not using a broker well then yes its cheap.. but there is no mystery to this.. 

With GC, what you see is what you get...no mystery.  

Not sure where you're going with this unless this is a reference back to your mysterious pool boy that is going to sink a Fortune 500 company.I keep bringing up S&P500 because most 401Ks will offer something that tracks this.  

This is a mystery to me. 

Using a Realtor allows them to avoid the hassle of mysterious paperwork and legal issues such as what to do with the earnest money.

He mysteriously disappeared after bidding a job one day.

--George Bernard ShawOr then again:From childhood’s hour I have not beenAs others were—I have not seenAs others saw—I could not bringMy passions from a common spring—From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow—I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone—And all I loved—I loved alone—Then—in my childhood—in the dawnOf a most stormy life—was drawnFrom every depth of good and illThe mystery which binds me still—From the torrent, or the fountain—From the red cliff of the mountain—From the sun that round me rolledIn its autumn tint of gold—From the lightning in the skyAs it passed me flying by—From the thunder, and the storm—And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view—-- Edgar Allan PoeOr still:"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."