You burn a lot of fuel getting off the ground, but once you are at altitude, you can throttle back and enjoy the ride.  

Though its not an answer to your question, i am a fan of burner, google voice, and good ol fashion verizon.  

They operate in higher end markets in a parasitic fashion to traditional real estate agents. 

I won't disagree this does take a lot of time, energy, paper, emails, phone calls, back and forth, forth and back, up and down... yes we are on roller coaster ride to create bank financing, to buy and sell real estate, to flip property dealing with contractors, dealing with tenants and crazy people, managing a family, managinh ourselves and much more... but if creating wealth and cash flow was really really easy... everything would be doing. it. 

Brokers hate lawsuits in any form and fashion.

Instead, I am going to personally scour MLS a couple times a day to make sure no opportunities are missed, and I will also make the off market opportunities I mentioned above available to you as well.Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to meet, shake hands, and see if we can develop that long term business relationship you mentioned in your post.What do you think?

Strap on your learning camp, buckle in and enjoy the ride here at BP.

I know Summa those are nice guys as well they have a KW over ride program  Note sure if its still going.Wiechert is new in town and they are ALL about investing.. they do foreclosures ..

Get addicted to the Podcasts, you can learn soooo much from them, I have replaced my radio/music with podcasts when I ride in the car, and have turned off the TV to listen to podcasts, participate in Webinars and read! 

Jil, if you choose this route you should consider riding some of those coattails if Bob would let you and you find you trust him and his out of state team :)