Basically rampant mortgage fraud creates mini bubbles that immediately pop.

You have the right concepts in mind which is great.

The SAFE Act basically states that any financing method or system devised that may provide any rent credit toward the purchase of a residence or that facilitates the sale of any covered property will be covered under the law.

If you know the basics of what you are doing, you don't necessarily have to be an expert, you will be fine.

@Page Huyette I fully appreciate the kind of smart buying that @Ben Leybovic uses and his opposition to "buying equity" on multifamily properties, but I think that concept is misapplied here.

Here's a forum thread I started earlier this year that has some basic ideas to ponder:What to say when contacting an absentee landlord

You need a basic understanding of accounting, but I love the software.

Basically as an agent you can offer to do just listing in MLS, or listing + negotiating, or whatever.I've been debating if I should create a flat fee listing package for FSBOs/investors.

Basically you have to put in a blind offer.

I mean the mls is basically monopoly.