@Patrick BarkerAnother suggestion to bypass the Realtor and keep you from getting preapproved would be to write  a simple letter of intent (LOI)The LOI has been used effectively by people such as Grant Cardone who was featured on podcast #108.A simple google search of this term will show some samples....good luck!

Only other real estate experience I have is buying a home with my wife 4 years ago(and the occasional seminar from StrongBrook, Yancy, etc).I'm working 3 part time jobs until I get things going as a Realtor and also starting to get things planned to invest in real estate to help supplement my income and set my family up for retirement.I'm looking forward to learning from the BP community & getting to know everyone. 

I have sat through teaser presentations of the "We buy houses" type of seminars and they describe "sitting across the kitchen table with grandma", pretending to be interested in her life so she will "sell" you her house for pennies on the dollar.

i just attended a FB 3 day seminar this weekend.

I've already attended a weekend seminar with FB.

I have an 30 year VA loan at 2.875% which might be a nice selling feature depending on what the average interest rate in 3 years. 

Hello,I am trying to find a property management software (if possible online) that I can use do do accounting for my properties, but that will also track the equity in each property using current market values (is possible pulling them from Zillow, but I'm OK entering them myself) and tracking my mortgages and the additional principal that gets paid off every month.Ideally, I'd like to have a dashboard that will track the net worth of the portfolio over time, and use not only the rental income, but also any equity increase to determine overall ROI.I've tried out about 15 online property management solutions, but most of them seem to be built for management companies that manage properties on behalf of third party investors, and are lacking the above features.Does anyone know about any software that would do the above, without missing some of the essential property management features (such as full ledger accounting for example).Thank you in advance for your suggestions!

I have been self-educating and attending seminars to slowly transition into the wonderful world of REI (specifically wholesaling).  

There is a market rent, and there are certain must have features and amenities needed to get that rent.

I realize that NPN are hot, that's really because of the brokers pushing them, books, seminars and the guru stuff.