What ever you do don’t be an ask hole.

.** As a new agent - (write this now) your best client is YOURSELF - represent yourself - get out there and in the market - look at 20-50 buildings (houses, commercial, businesses with real estate, lots and land) - know more about your local market (and sub-markets) than anyone else in the area - you need to know the estimated value of properties in your marketing area - (if someone gives you a street name - you should be able, off the top of your head to know the value) be the most informed of zoning changes, tax sales, foreclosures, auctions, the county's master plan, study expired listings - talk to real investors (not those turkeys who just took a GET RICH REAL ESTATE COURSE.Buyers and Sellers are liars - they will waste your time, eat a hole in your wallet, run you around, make bad offers, call you at all times of the day and evening - they will be demanding - you don't need to baby sit with people who can't make a wise decision! 

Tenants that don't leave, can take several months, and when leave, you will find broken items, holes in walls, cement poured down the toilet, etc.

After he got done showing me each and every item (holes in walls, flooring, leaks, etc), he concluded the house is likely worth 80k-85k as-is, I offered him 80k, and tossed in a bonus, by saying I would pay his closing cost.

There was a hole in the roof letting water in, and a heating unit in the top that doesn't currently work, which is a big deal in Minneapolis this time of year.

Helps you to not be in the hole from day 1, which is what I've seen happen to a lot of investors who use their own cash. 

I thought, "There's an A$$hole American with a gun..." 

(Your cost - $200) Put out 10 every week at different areas of town until you find a good fishing hole.4.2 "Please buy my house by Dec 1st or the bank will win.

I'm anxious to get started on my REI adventures, but I don't want try to put a square peg in a round hole (my bank account).

Most successful investors have learned the hard way that for every aspiring investor with the right mind set and work ethic, there are thousands of time wasting a**hole just looking for a quick and easy way to make a fortune.....and that doesn't exist.