Investors normally use birddogs that are people with occupations that will bring them into contact with vacant properties (i.e. cablemen, utility company employees, newspaper delivery people, etc.).

entering into an agency (agreement) with real estate broker that involves you as a buyer simply means that the broker is working on your behalf - meaning - you're the client and the sellers are customers.a broker or a sales agent that you enter into a buyers agency with simply give the broker of record an exclusive right to help you - you can't go off and close on real estate without them - for you, this type of arrangement is good because you have the piece of mind that the broker/agent works for you (you hope - even with agency sometimes agents get mixed up with this because it's the little things that make or break agency).as far as using an agent - they might be able to run comps for you, let you know certain things about a given area pertaining to rents, values, general info about the locale that may help you find the best for YOUR money.know this about co-ops - you're not buying real estate - you're buying shares and in return you obtain a proprietary lease to a unit which is owned by the corp.

I got my first deal from my ad in the small local newspaper.

My hometown is Clovis, the newspaper recently ran an article stating that in 1982 the pop. was 30,000, and it's now 31,000.

This time to create an exclusive purchase pool for my clients... and this is the exact approach I am using.

It's only about 10 minutes from where I live.The advertising we are hoping to get at a discount because my father works at the local newspaper.

No oil changes on the property, in fact we got a letter because my husband is the first to get up in the morning and places everyones newspaper at their front door.

That would be everyone I meet in the grocery, drug store, at Little League, Lions Club, Boy Scouts, PTA, church, the newspaper delivery boy, the postman, the UPS driver and even people sitting at nearby booths at Denny's.Naturally I will tell them ONLY THE TRUTH about how I feel I was treated and with any luck and persistence we may see if TRUTH and WORD OF MOUTH can overcome paid advertising.signed EOCNOTE, I'm not saying YOU should do this.

The rollover or once-in-a-lifetime options were replaced with the current per-sale exclusion amounts."

first of all - if he's a buyers agent - meaning he will represent you, the buyer exclusively - the selling agent pays his commission.for every listing through a broker - there is an automatic split - for instance, at X real estate brokerage - they have a minimum that they'll take, say 3%...then when the get a listing, they'll take a 5% comission, offering 2% to agents bringing a buyer.forget this guy you met.