While your imediate area may be tought to cash flow, I bet within an hours drive there are neighbrhoods that will make great rentals.

Your best bet will be smaller local banks.

While I'm not interested in working as an agent, I have decided to take an online course to get my salesperson license, then hopefully find a broker willing to hang my license.

I started looking around online and it doesn't seem like the orginal Emyth book is available.

What would be my best bet.

Many, even most (but not all) realtors are not going to take kindly to low-ball offers from individuals that are bring buyers to pay more for a property and cut them out of a greater commission.Third, buyers can get access to MLS listings (including REO) though other agents and online sources.

I know it may seem crazy, but I'm just wondering if the wallpaper doesn't come down easily (which I bet it won't because it appears to have been there a while) how difficult it will be to fix the walls.

@Shaun Reilly This may sound silly, but you can buy stamps online from the post office at www.usps.com.

So called off-market properties found to have a MLS or just as bad have been vastly marketed online so much so that its just the same as having an MLS.

I see the bull market and have invested a bit in a dozen companies but the ETF's would certainly be a safer bet.