By the time you go through your cash, you could have spent the time to learn here at BP or REI or Connected Investors or other online sites and learned what to do and not to do.I used to be on the board at a local REIA, and I think they are just there to feed off the people who are members.

During that time I also built and grew a successful real estate agent and construction business that both feed my investments, and replaced my W-2 salary as well.

Zillow, which comes with a host of restrictions expressly prohibiting "enriching other datasets" etc)*) Those who will process and sanitize MLS for you (which is a huge task in itself) but you have to have MLS creds, meaning you have to deal with the zoo of MLS providers all by yourself - or pay something like $1200/mo for nationwide (US + Canada) listing feed*) Folks who charge per call (CoreLogic, House Canary etc.) and who have high quality sets but they don't want you to mine them so they set all sorts of call rates and excessive price per call to ward off "gold diggers"It is a mistake to say that the data "is abundant" and "if it is available, it must be worthless".

I wonder if there is a way you could tie into the IDX feeds that Bright pushes to agent websites.

And this whole industry of attorneys is feeding on this.

Now you're feeding it.

I've heard this repeatedly the best way is to master one source and then go to the others and Chaz your definitely right as well appreciate the feed back.

Feed your faith, to starve your fears and doubts"

Appreciate everyone's feed back, it helps knowing I'm not the only fish swimming in these waters.

@Lisa Kohl here in NYS you have to be licensed and go through 140 hours 100 class training and 40 field hours I appreciate the feed back