One morning, the broker called, and i recognized his number.

When they walk  in with some deal, the first thing to recognize is that you're talking to someone who has made a bogus business contract not having the intent to follow through to the letter of their contract nor having the ability to carry through.

Gurus don't recognize these differences, if they did their claims as to your ability to make money with their schemes would be limited, that's not what they are selling, if you  can't get rich you won't be buying in to their product.Being full of energy and enthusiasm is great as a younger investor, many get too cocky too soon too thinking they know when in reality they are still very naive, your BS Meter isn't fully calibrated yet.

I just moved to Philadelphia from California and want to get started in my RE career.After some research I have whittled down my options for the online courses to two:https://www.realestateexpress.com/prelicense/pa/pr...andhttps://portal.recampus.com/re/templere/store/port...They both have their pros and cons for me: One (real estate express) is cheaper and offers a test prep book, the other (Temple) is a recognized institution in the area and has a physical location for testing.

It will teach you how to structure any kind of business deal the right way and how to recognize when a deal is set up the wrong way.

This makes me think that we often don't recognize and appreciate opportunities in front of us and keep looking for something else.

Check all three of your credit bureau reports and dispute anything you don't recognize. 

You want something that everyone recognizes as normal.Back to the exterior: you want it to be in obviously good exterior condition and have a fresh coat of paint in a normal color scheme.

Grant - Regarding title search, there are online title searches that you can get for less then $50 but recognize that they are not going to do the same level of search.

My main issue in doing this is the knowledge to discover/recognize what a great deal would be.