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New to the abbreviations.

My honest abbreviated conclusion on the necessity of paid learning is this:  1.

However, the challenge becomes more apparent when you discover that users abbreviate terms that are common to them but not to others. 

Hello,Does anyone have a list of meanings for the abbreviations I see here on BP?

", not "ect", which is short for et cetera, which is latin, so you are hereby forgiven for misspelling the abbreviation of it. 

I realize that my response was abbreviated.

Here's a list of the real estate abbreviations you'll run across . . . otherwise, as others have suggested, our Beginner's Guide has most of the basic concepts you'll want to know.

I think the MO in his other post was an abbreviation for Modus Operandi, not Missouri.

I'm new to all of this and don't understand all the abbreviations.