While good deals may be passing me by in the meantime, my process (at least for now) is to concentrate on one property at a time.

If you are simply wanting to increase your spreads even more by eliminating these costs, I would say that you would be better served as a RE investor by getting more deals and more funding for your deals rather than concentrating on saving RE commissions.

I became a pro member and just narrowed down the areas I wanted to concentrate on in my hometown of Evansville, and analyzed them.  

I would concentrate on wholesaling and find an active investor in your area to pass deals to. 

Drive around the area north of I40 and West of Tramway as there is a good concentration of 4plexes in that area. 

We aren't however concentrating on a specific city trying to go where the deals are!

you need to figure out what you want to concentrate on and familiarize yourself with the area and how to determine where to buy. 

We are also currently in the market for SFHs and are mostly concentrating our looking in Rio Rancho.I'd love to know how you came to land in ABQ.  

I think several have gone public lately and are concentrating more on their present portfolio - as far as I've heard.So, you may have to shift and try to lure the retail buyer now

At 28 years old, I should be able to compound that exponentially through the years.I would like to concentrate on duplexes and up for te increased yield due to economies of scale and the emphasis on cashflow instead of appreciation.