Don't go there, you get paid after it closes and not before, counting your chickens before they hatch will get you in trouble.Real estate is unique, it's not a widget you can accurately time from raw goods through processing to sales off the shelf.

Otherwise it can get complicated as you really are putting buyers and sellers together, facilitating sales.You need to read your state statutes very carefully word for word as to what requires a real estate license and then don't do those things if you don't have a license.You can be an employee or memebr in a LLC that buys or sells, as a principal, in other words if BAC LLC buys a property and you are a memeber of BAC LLC, you can then be entitled to profits for the work you perform in that LLC.Another way is for you to take an option to buy and then sell your option, this is placing you in a position of havine an interest in the transaction, but those you sell to may have financing issues with this, it also depends on property restrictions or title limitations as beeing seen as sales during a restriction to conveyances, again check and see how these issues are viewed locally.Generally, you can not act as a third party between a buyer and seller and simply arrange or introduce deals and be paid a fee independly as that is a function of a real estate agent/broker.Lastly, it's easy to get a bad reputation amoung Realtors if you're known as a birddog, they will likely see you as unlicensened competiton and expect them to complain and report your activities.

The websites usually seem quite promising about ones future lifestyle to come, but having paid for a couple of trainings in other real estate areas I"ve become a little more discriminating.

However I would still want to keep my fulltime job and have real estate be something I do alongside my fulltime job.My question is with limited capital how could I best get started on this challenge?

I would try with your current insurer (unless it's Safeco).Allstate is quite popular, but are limited to insuring 4 properties - http://www.allstateagencies.com/DeanBarnard/WelcomeAmerican Family Insurance seems pretty flexible and will insure over 100 properties - http://insurance-agency.amfam.com/GA/robin-l-mitchell/Can your property manager recommend someone?

And I know my limitations and when to bring in the experts who will do a better job than I would.Thanks again.

Unfortunately, it's going to be tough to have such a limited role in the investment (especially with limited knowledge/experience) and still be successful on your own.

Hardmoney lending is sort of like being a limited partner in a real estate partnership with a little more skin in the game.

IMO, it's one of our most dangerous laws and one that should be strictly limited.

Check out the special programs in your area as they may have something like it -- I was shocked at how high the income limit was to be accepted into the program.