@Mike Alder  good luck I grew up in the business.. must watch movie for any land man is Glenn Garry Glen ross... you will see how all these lots you want to buy were created in the first place.land game dates back to just after the turn of the century  ( not 2000) when promoters went through the US creating mega subdivisions prior to any state or federal land development rules.. so you have all these old tracks and the parcels have been traded for 100 plus years.. lost at tax sale bought by someone like you or my dad.. resold on terms  those folks default or lose to tax's and the cycle repeats.Florida created massive subdivisions to attract residence's since no one wanted to live in swamps and such.. think Le High and Coral Gables..  

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.

Great book and movie!

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.

Between the movie "Too Big To Fail" and the Occupy movements and everything else, I couldn't see supporting businesses that ran roughshod over the American people.  

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.

Here in NJ, there have been (from what I understand from talking to other realtors) numerous times where short sales have come onto the market, and the buyer and seller agree, then the bank kills the deal and forces it into their auction site so that they can give themselves a 5% premium on the back end since they own that site.