Subscriptions.

If you want the benefits of MLS, there will be a subscription fee and sometimes more (such as separate listing fees), depending on the requirements of whatever MLS you join.

It does cost a little to join, but if you get on their mailing list, you'll frequently get offers for cut-rate subscriptions.

As a real estate broker, I pay about $100 per month for a premium search subscription on LoopNet for my clients and for myself.

I was thinking about getting my RE license just so that I could obtain MLS access and have an advantage over other buyers, but there were a few things I was wondering about:1) Is there a long lag time from the time you pass the test to when you actually receive your license (and are able to purchase an MLS subscription)?

Some of those expenses vary each month, and some of them are annual expenses, such as the cost for renewing domain names, or annual subscriptions to local real estate databases, or whatever.

Mark Yuschak Glad to hear you've done just fine without getting sucked into buying this and that program/software/subscription.

That could be subbed out to a VA with you selling the generated leads.Last thought 'till I understand your involvement a little better: Fix up your own sites and sell your partner a subscription to your sites lead gen.

At the moment, we charge a subscription fee of $200 upfront + $50/month thereafter to have full access to addresses & contact information to currently over 75 properties (many of which aren't seen anywhere else).

I wanted to jump right in, spend money on different subscriptions, buy a guru course.