I've had social workers working for agencies who routinely defend their client's behavior, as if violent, argumentative behavior, domestic violence, illegal drug use, violation of lease terms, and of course, always combined with non-payment of rent, were just a "cultural" difference. 

This isn't always that fruitful as they are going to give you their happiest customers, but if they can't provide any, that may be a red flag.11.

If you just want to take the courses, you probably won't learn anything useful, most RE courses for agents are just memorizing definitions.

We have seen a few multi-families come and go on the market over the last two months but we know we'll need to act quickly to nab one that will prove to be fruitful. 

I have owned 4 brokerages over the decades.. mostly to support my own activities.. thats the only way I would personally do it.. its constant recruiting.. and with the margins these days your not making much on the brokerage its a free place to work.. now in some markets were they have a strangle hold on agents and take a crazy cut like 50% I guess i can see that working.. but in competitive markets for agents you have 100% shops that just charge a flat fee per year.Like my wife pays 10k a year.. and gets 100%... the landscape is changing.for beginning in the business though I like the Keller team approach will will learn while you earn.. then figure out what you want to do.

You are what is referred to as "low hanging fruit."

I will invest in real estate until I get old and tired of it, at that point I plan to sell it all and start loaning hard money to catch the low hanging fruit.  

I’d be willing to give up $200 to pay for a So]forage unit for the seller if they are that cash strapped.

But the work is done and you (and I) are enjoying the fruits of our labor.

but again untested, no historic performance data, the low hanging fruit is being picked off by syndicators then combining assets into opportunity funds so what kind of performance will come from that is unknown.