I'm a New Yorker so this journey will be Long Distance.  

@J Scott when we talk about getting started in a career with guru's in the early 60s in aviation magazines it was the same way selling the dream of becoming an airline pilot..

. #3 looks like it could be on a real estate magazine directed to a female audience.Hope this is, at least, some help to you.

You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.To be more successful, you simply have to work on the other elements to progress your REI pursuit.As a fellow New Yorker, I share your pain with regard to prices and taxes.

Lots of stuff cash flows here, but you have to stop looking at the prices of properties in Homes & Land magazine and instead get knees to knees with an owner of a property and work something out with him/her.

., I have see some decent big picture sf maintenance routines at the sites of the big box retailers, home improvement sites and magazines, even realtors associations and home inspectors have some..there are even whole books on the topic that are worth a look.

Welcome to a fellow New Yorker!

@Michael JonesWelcome to BP, a fellow New Yorker here.

This is 2015, no one turns to a magazine for their source of potential $10M homes.  

I'm a New Yorker and moved here a month ago, but I feel I got to know some areas pretty well through my house search.