New as in I earned my real estate license last Tuesday (May 3rd) and I signed with Keller Williams in downtown Orlando on Friday (May 6th).

@Carolyn Keller what you are suggesting is getting to be more popular.

Hi David-I'm an investor and work for Keller Williams and love it.  

Chris,I am a Realtor with Keller Williams here in Central Florida.  

So by this Forum I hope to meet like minded people in the Columbus area, and maybe even a serious partner.Things I have been doing to create a network here include:-Hondros Real Estate School-Keller Williams is sponsoring me for my R/E exam-I've went to the sheriff"s foreclosure auctions on High St-Joined BP-Went to Arlington bank to talk with some loan officersIf there is anything else that you would suggest me do for better networking weather that be for being an investor or salesperson, please let me know.

@Chase Keller Here's a BP link to another similar thread that has some advice on running numbers. 

My agent at Keller Williams wrote it to protect *me* so I could back out if they adjusted the lot line too much, not so the seller could breach contract because he got a higher offer.

I want to take the 75-hour course in person, not online.I stopped by a local Keller Williams branch the other day, and they gave me a few places to contact, and I wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts/experience with the schools.

Hello Everyone,I received this message a while back from Aaron Junck, another Sioux Falls investor that has been active on BP.Mike, Our REIA meetings are the 3rd thursday of each month at 630 pm at the Keller Williams Realty office just behind 69th and western on the northwest corner.We have another REIA group that meets the 3rd saturday of each month at 9am at premos tax on 26th and marion.I am currently in the process of trying to combine the two groups but have nothing set in stone yet.I went to one meeting and it was informative but I have not been able to get back to another one yet.He also provided a link to one of the REIA websites.  

._______________________________________- In the book Shift by Gary Keller of Keller Williams, published I think in 2009 just after the crash, he talked in chapter 10 called creative financing.I’ll paraphrase:Real estate agents to do well have to work much harder to get a listing appointment, because credit is now very difficult.If real estate agents learned this business and were trained from 2002 to 2008,-when credit was terribly easy,-liar loans were available,-100% of value with no money down,then they didn’t need to learn how to do creative financing.Like Gary Keller, I started in real estate in the early 80s when interest rates were well over 10% for mortgages.I do a lot of wraparound mortgages and contract for deed purchases, because getting financing was almost impossible.The point of the creative financing chapter is this:As an agent, you need to be very creative in this credit strangled market.As a real estate investor, you need to make money with every lead.So let’s talk about an example:__________a pretty house quiet street, owes 95,000, comps come in at 100The days are gone when you can overprice the house and do a price reduction.The $100K house will sit there for months and months if it’s overpriced.If you really care about the seller having some success about fixing their house problem, you need to talk about selling on terms and selling on cash.