you need to be networking, walking neighborhoods, building a team, and learning a market. 

I'm a "new" realtor looking to learn more about investing from teaming up with investors.

BP is a great place to network and build out your team.

You have FAKE "deals" on your marketplace, and after I had to reply back to you on voxer and make you realize I am not some dumb fool over here, you then told me, "My team did an audit and took down the ones that are outdated, thanks for letting us know."

Quote from @Andy Port: I'm currently looking to take some money out of traditional investments and begin investing directly into real estate as a passive investor on syndicated deals.The internet is pretty much copy-paste with advice on how to access real estate and defaults to saying "Just invest in a REIT - its the same" except you pay for the entire pool of existing properties (even if they have low yields in less opportunistic areas), the entire management team's multi-million dollar salary and their private jet, etc...

You can read more books, network with contractors, improve your current properties (overdue repairs/capex), make connections with investors, and build a team for future deals.

If you look through some of the posts on BP, you'll read many stories, specifically of investors from California and NYC buying cheap properties, frequently in the Midwest and South who have lost money.

Has your team sat down with them in advance or recently to go through everything as well ?

Your lender can be one of the biggest assets on your team.

Even if I lost my license today and had a flip tomorrow I would still pay both the buyer and seller agent fees.