They also helped to herd the cats, get Form D filed, etc.

Has anyone ever herd of the company StrongBrook if so what have you herd good or bad?

@elio Levy: The fact is that you are sharing text that hundreds of others are using, which does not separate you from the herd.

I just have a different mindset.My clients say thank you so much for helping me.Many have not bought or sold an investment property in years.They don't know what the market is or how transactions are worked these days.They are looking for someone to help them.Some run businesses in the commercial world and are super busy.They do not have the time to do the upfront work but want to partner with a broker who can.Sure there are control freaks who want to do EVERYTHING on there own.What I say to that is there is plenty of business to go around.If you market properly as a broker you can have all the business you want provided you give value to the transaction whether it is buying or selling.I won't buy into the brokers/agents are worthless and not needed stuff and never will.My real life experience on a daily basis tells me otherwise and has been for years.Maybe mediocre brokers/agents will be thinned from the herd but that is another thing all together.

Lurking the forums hear I herd different things about obtaining, and then selling a property with no money down to and end user.

I search Realtor.com plus my agent sends me freshly listed REO'sDonNever herd of homepath.com I'll take a look, I have access to MLS as well.

You guys give us a huge ADVANTAGE over the herd!

I agree now that a college degree is seen as necessary.Back when I graduated high school in 1993 a college degree still had value more than just being seen as what a high school diploma used to be.The problem I see is where many get degrees in things that rack up student debt but pay little to no money as a specialist degree.Other times they get a general business degree.They do this to be versatile.I think it hurts most job applicants as yes they can apply for many generalist jobs but so can a bunch of other people with the same vanilla degree.I believe if you are going to go this route at least get your Masters degree.That extra schooling will put you ahead of many applying for a job.You will earn more over your lifetime and statistically get promoted faster.If you want to be special and make an extraordinary life for yourself you have to avoid the herd mentality and stand out.So I say don't go to college for the sake of college.I know people with degrees that just can't get a job so they work retail as a manager making a crappy 12 bucks an hour.They go to apply for a job for their degree and surprise there is 50 other applicants many who have ten years experience where their company went out of business.Now you have over qualified applicants that employers can land at entry level wages and the students with degrees can't get a foot in the door.If a student can get free tuition they don't have to pay back with student loans or their parents have a fund to pay it for them then great have at it.If the student is going to simply rack up tens of thousands even over 100k of debt and then hit the world making 15 bucks an hour they will be in a world of hurt.Especially since you can't get rid of the student debt in BK.In the old days you worked for a company and gave them your heart and soul and in return they took care of you in retirement.These days people change jobs on average every 5 years and about 80% of the work force hates their job and does it out of necessity.I wouldn't call that a quality way of living.

Perhaps its the herd mentality.

That in itself by nature has the herds buying up the little houses making investments tough.