Looking forward contribute whatever I can and absorb as much knowledge as possible from people more experienced and wiser than I.A little personal information: I went to school and practiced programming for a while, but got tired of it and started teaching Ballroom about 4 years ago.

The capital gains generally tends to be higher in more desirable areas, especially where land is limited.So as an investment, a low yielding piece of real estate dis not always completely irrational as an investment and personally, I am a strong believer that in todays market with so much information at our finger tips, prices and percentage returns and yields tend to be a good reflection of risk.Just my opinion base don my investment style.

Because the vast majority (almost the entirety) of what seminars and gurus teach in exchange for large amounts of money is available elsewhere for free.  

But, I have had to teach lawyers why their cases were dismissible so...luck of the draw I guess. 

here are some nice examples of light contrasting/modern style on Tudor style houses on Pinterest--https://goo.gl/KSZVHq

Find a firm with a good reputation, a large market share, and a person (or team) that will shadow you.It's very important in the beginning stages of being an agent because you don't have a reputation (yet), you need some to teach you a proven sales strategy, and a well-known firm will provide you with credibility, 

Big one is saturation levels if urban,suburban,rural the ring radius changes.If you want to open a pizza place but in a 3 mile suburban radius there is 20 of them you are going to have a tough time out there making sales without running coupons all the time.An exception would be if you were the only Chicago deep dish style in town and people pay more for your product to get something they can't find elsewhere and even if they can find it then it's not the same quality. 

That's why I like turnkey style.

There were at least 10 acres of well-manicured yard there, and that didn’t include any of the pasture.The log-sided house was well kept with a large barn on the right that matched its style.

You can pay someone 25k to teach you how to ride a bike, and they might give some wonderful pointers/insight.