I'd be more interested in the services provided by a brokerage that takes a chunk of my commission if they were a meaningful part of helping me generate the lead, or training me to build my agent business.For these reasons, I hang my license with Broker's Guild, which charges me a nominal ($25) monthly fee and a flat fee for transaction services.

Deep in the corporate rat race with no means of free time and/or meaningful wealth generation.

Borrowers with experience—who acquire a property priced well below market—and have meaningful skin the game will usually receive aggressive competing terms.

The trick is extracting it from them.

would you purchase a house that can reliably produce a 500.00 cash flow if there was little chance for any meaningful appreciation?

Now, i'm looking to diversify my income through rental property.I just wanted to say hello to you all and hope to be able to contribute to this forum in a meaningful manner in the not too distant future.Thanks,Craig.

How do you assign meaningful geographical boundaries to specific areas that are homogenous in terms of value for a given home with a given set of features?

My goal is to extract most, if not all, my money from every investment property that I own so I have essentially transferred all of the risk to the lender while staying liquid.

You need to give more info before you can get a meaningful answer to your question.What specific details of the lien are you trying to determine?

This forum is a great place to do everything you said - network with experienced investors, study articles on RE investing, listen to the BP Podcast episodes and extract nuggets for your knowledge, purchase books, attend webinars, and more and more.