Roughly $114,000 was spent on the capital investment of the properties.

You may want to starting thinking out of the box with auctions or wholesalers.

Think of all the time you haven't spent with a 5 year tenant versus 5 one year tenants!

In this course some guy named @Brandon Turner spent hours and hours talking about biggerpockets.com. 

Spent the morning going through several threads and learning a lot so far .

In that month, he spent fewer than two and a half weeks in the hospital, (est) which was on and off. 

Here are some recommendations for you:Find and connect with other BP members that are in your area:http://www.biggerpockets.com/meetSet up keyword alerts to be notified of the topics that interest you:http://www.biggerpockets.com/alertsRead Beginner’s Guide: http://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investingIf you wish to tag someone in the conversation on the forum, type @ followed by their name and then select the name of that person which should appear below the comments box.

Depending on your price range there may be very little commission per transaction and from an agent's perspective the time spent looking at properties may not be worth the return.

Hit them up every month.On another note...your time is actually probably better spent trying to generate listing leads than doing BPO's.

So we have an incentive to be lazy and tell you to refinance every time rates drop by 1/8 to 1/4, rather than drum up home-buyer business, because we already have all your paperwork and in terms of production per hour spent it'll be super easy for us.