Its very cheap in some of these area.  

ok, here goes. you have no cash reserves. you need to boost your cash reserves. you need to do a couple of quick flips to put some cash in your pockets. with little money to work with, you need to buy as cheap as you can, and sell for profit. tax foreclosure sales are best. sometimes you can pick these places up for next to nothing. do your home work, though. make sure you can make money on it. i have bought some for as little as $200. then you quick flip it for say $5000. you make money, the buyer gets a good deal, everyone walks away happy and you are building your cash reserves

MLS access is expensive, plus mandatory realtor board fees, continuing education time spent and fees...and the continuing education classes that are cheap are a total joke.

It is easy to use and cheap.

Just cause homes are cheap in the big Red Machine town.  

They are not cheap, but are good sources of $$$ to get you started.

Essentially it was a cheap-ish purchase with decent rental incomes. 

A homeowner may haggle verbally, a Realtor or shouldn't be and most investors don't act on verbal offers, talk is cheap as they say.

How ever as a Realtor several years ago I did find a few FSBO's that were motivated sellers, and they were happy to just unload the property dirt cheap.

In fact what many of them do is slap cheap carpet and paint and change a couple of fixtures and call it new.