Also recognize that some services might end up as loss leaders and not the best way to spend your time.

I started thinking about what am I doing this for and why am I doing this again and how much work I was going to have to do over the next two weeks.So all this stuff was rolling around in my head and I'm driving home from work with nothing on the radio (I usually have a REI podcast or audio book in) just thinking about all that's going to happen and I start dwelling on the what-ifs then it dawns on me as I'm driving down the road that that number on the bottom of the statement is smaller than what most people spend on a car.

At the same time if you are too far off what the other parties expect you might put them off the deal or have to spend extra time explaining the point of the deviation.John Corey

For the sake of the people spending this money, I sure hope those courses have "good" information, including complete business/marketing planning.The biggest value to business/marketing planning is that sometimes it indicates that you SHOULD NOT start the business or make a deal.

Spend some time at your courthouse and see how it works in your area.

You wind up spending more cash improving the replacement property for rental so that you can hold it to satisfy the IRS requirements.

Blasius,http://forums.biggerpockets.com/Spend some time researching then come back and ask specific questions

Any investor has to hold off spending money on a purchase if the old owner can redeem for the auction price.

I realize that it is a multi-billion dollar industry and that like anything it seems like 90% of the business is going to the top 10% in the industry, but that still leaves a considerable amount of money left to the other 90% in the industry.

I recently moved to Portland, OR from Boise, IDI got interested after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad which really made me think differently about money and how to spend it wisely.