Risk is fixed costs when transaction volume is low, you have to manage your cash flow.How many deals are your friends doing?

it's a volume game. 

They have daily webinars, you can call your mentor pretty much 24/7, so it's real interaction.

The Housing Wire Daily podcast has great insights into rate movement and forward estimates.

I thought to myself and thought the workshops must be very intensive.For me, the 3-day Real Estate Workshop was held at Roosevelt's Hotel.First Day:I was given two booklets--1) Real Estate Workbook (wich supplements the book they gave out before the workshop)2) Real Estate Elite Workshop Events Catalog (which I first thought was the daily schedule for the workshop but later found out it's an information packet on the $39,500 "elite" courses that they sell)The ironic part is that, through this three-day event, the so-called instructor Jason Jones referred to the Ad packet "Real Estate Elite Workshop Events Catalog" SIX times (he literally asked us to take it out and flip to certain page) and didn't mention ANYTHING nor asking us to read the "Real Estate Workbook ".

It was basically the perfect storm that lowered occupancy and in consequence average daily rates.

I have been a high volume realtor for 8 years, worked with a lot of investors and have been waiting to get into investing.

I'm using my workout time to educate myself daily and feel overwhelmed, but excited to get going.

This is very common with local banks and credit unions - they dont have the infrastructure or volume to sell into the secondary market and simply choose not to offer those products in their business model. 

I'd agree with mortgage news daily - the "average mortgage rate" generally tracks very very closely with the 10-year treasury yield (+ a somewhat steady spread) - google and yahoo finance on that are pretty handy