I'm at Keller Williams in Kirkwood and there is never a shortage of houses to hold open. 

Purchase price: $205,000 Cash invested: $42,992 This deal was my first after really finding BiggerPockets, reading Gary Keller's Millionaire Real Estate Investor and narrowing my search criteria.

There is typically a discussion about market conditions from a Keller Williams realtor followed by a presentation by a local professional on a specific investing topic such as flipping, inspections, wholesaling tactics, ect... and then networking/meet and greet time after the presentations are done.

I highly recommend Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller.

If you're interested in the training aspect of a brokerage, your best bet is probably to start at one of the larger companies -- Keller Williams, Re/Max, etc -- as they tend to have the budgets necessary to provide new-agent training as well as on-going training.Of course, the reason they have those budgets is that they take a very large percentage of your commissions on each deal (up to 60%).Also, they may not provide training in areas most interesting to investors -- short sales, flips, wholesaling, etc.So, it's a trade-off...

Keller Williams in my experience is one of the most invstor friendly brokerages around and VERY progressive in their knowledge.

I assume I can't just call Keller Willaims or Cenury 21 for this?

I'm a real estate agent with Keller Williams in Henderson NV, just outside Las Vegas.

Stella I think the best books on Real Estate investing are The Milionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller.

Bait-Response "Free Report" marketing should be used to cast the widest possible funnel for interested people who do not yet know you, then once the lead is captured (via Movoxo.com video lead-capture systems, autoresponder marketing systems such as Aweber, 800# Call-Capture systems), an agent should use proven referral marketing systems such as Brian Buffini's "By Referral Only" or Keller Williams "33 Touch" and "8 touches in 8 weeks" type systems.