If the cost exceeds the benefit, that must be revealed, and just like buying and selling a home, most of the players are incentivized to keep the product moving, not to do your own due diligence. 

While I know there are many successful investors who started as novice or even 'accidentally' there are many who have had an edge or advantage but do not reveal it, such as:1. 

That being said I'm planning to post a case study of how I helped my brother-in-law, a Contractor with a small 4-man team, go from struggling to $46,000 in new business in a very short time frame.If I had to write a highly click-bait worthy headline for this case study it would go something like...REVEALED: Struggling Contractor Signs $46,000+ in NEW Business in 7 days for FREE Without Paid Advertising Using This Simple 3-Step SystemI'm a glutton for memes, dad jokes, and anything that pokes fun at how ridiculous us marketers slice and dice language and communication in our marketing :)

My brother-in-law specializes in building patio covers, fences, decks, pergolas for residential homeowners.

You just need their name and date of birth.The national databases sometimes miss things that the local sources (state and county) will reveal to you.

Disclosure or general inspection doesn't says much and reveals seller "secrets"

If you do not have a real estate license, you are always dependent on another person to reveal the data to you.

And similarly, if the applications reveal liabilities, you can simply give notice on the m2m.

However, a closer inspection reveals some significant challenges that companies will encounter in the upcoming year.

You will need a lawyer.You will need an appraisal.You will need a home inspection.You will need title insurance.You will need a contract with the Seller.You will need some sort of partnership agreement if not a bog standard common law agreement as defined by your state.You will need a survey.You will need to heed the advice of the attorney in whether you need any other documents, and in what any document must provide for.You will need to have in your above documents what happens if you don’t like what is revealed or if there is a failure to get a document.The presence of a real estate agent is irrelevant to those things.Do NOT focus on saving the commission.

It's so easy to Google anything and find information on anything including YouTube videos.Many newbies on here struggle with the search function which usually reveals a wealth of information on most any RE related topic.