You should absolutely pay.Realtors have a large variety of responsibilities and motives, and the good ones will provide a lot of GREAT service for you, but this is quite the stretch.

You will get a huge variety of answers to this question.

Of course, there are a variety of ways to invest in real estate, either direct ownership of the property, holding mortgages secured by real property, etc.While certainly not as common as stock market investing, this is very commonly done and has been for decades. 

@Amanda Johnson - there are a variety of ways to split rental profit.

Granted, I'm aware that the main discussion here is note investing on real estate, however, I'm slightly curious to hear some feedback.Does anyone invest in other types of notes or paper outside of the real estate variety?

You're talking about a whole variety of no money down methods.

I've always liked SA (visited twice and toured a variety of properties while there). 

The purpose of this approach is that these markets are radically different for a variety of reasons we shouldn't go into detail here. 

There are a variety of avenues to stay in real estate and not have the problems associated with being a landlord.

No end to the variety.