I have been advised from many people to do this.

So, you should either join a local investment group where you can ask questions and learn from more experienced DIY landlords or be disciplined enough to search here on BP and the internet in general to learn what you need to know.

I am excited to be with like minded people and cant wait to learn from you all!

I have already seen the new forms/addendums that will be used here in Arizona, the common one for this will be the Seller Compensation Addendum.The one thing that might happen in your discount buyer agent scenario is you might get a buyers agent who agrees to a lower commission and then the listing agent is offering a co-broke that is higher than he agreed to, well now that buyers agent will only be able to get paid the lower amount he agreed to and the listing agent will keep the remainder, so listing agents could end up getting paid more.As far as your question on what to pay an agent, I view it similarly to hiring an attorney, there are discount attorney's and they might be okay for some people in some circumstances, or if you know the proper procedures and deadlines then maybe you do it on your own without an attorney.

Checkout some of the great Vrbo tools like market maker.You can see demand, occupancy of your competition for certain dates.The boost function can move you up in the search results for certain dates and it will also show you where you are in the search results for any dates you choose.I get most of my bookings from Vrbo and people always find me on there.

@Amy Lin - If it were me I would have an experienced attorney start the eviction process immediately.They are probably going to hang on as long as they can rent free as they have the closing proceeds.They might care about their credit if they do plan on buying another place, so you might have some leverage there.

But what a lot of people don't talk about when discussing the Cleveland real estate market is how much they're building up the downtown Cleveland and University Circle areas. 

I am preparing myself with the right team of people to facilitate my upcoming real estate transactions.

Do people use other methods than this? 

Yes, sure, people have wealthy friends/family or a wealthy coworker that likes to be the bank.