You will need education, licensing and mentoring by a licensed professional.If you would like to concentrate on hobbies, family or mowing the lawn and like being a handyman on the side, then property management may be the way to go.If too much time on your hands will boar you to tears but you want the independence of being "self-employed" then maybe it would be a good idea to look into doing real estate sales.It really depends on what you want out of your career change.

There used to be a saying "As California goes, so goes the nation", with the liberal policies of California, cities/counties filing bankruptcy, prisons releasing thousands of prisoners, hundreds of millions in unfunded public employee union obligations, taxes and fees on every conceivable thing going up.....

Instead of getting paid for bringing deals, ask if you can take your pay in education and training.

Joe Hartman You have been doing your research on the forum so looks like you have got a pretty good education to place this as your first posting on the forums.

Here is another link to a site produced by Antelope Valley Education & Research Foundation.

I think those AVM and RVM are like given estimate based from the data they obtained from MLS and public records. 

That's not reality & I'm sure that line item will go up with time.My point was to educate the newbs to stay away from condo HOA's & to always put $ aside each month for unexpected costs.

This will tell you whats hot as the cash buyers are usually investors/rehabbers.If you are picking up rental property for you to buy and hold, nothing high end and have a good public transportation line running through it.

Read the forums/Blogs, look at the educational items and ask questions.

The owners get attached to a non attainable number, and until they are educated on how, and why, parks are priced the way they are- they sit.