It is like $20-25 at the door and something like $120-130 for an annual membership so if you go to more than a few meetings it pays for itself like that pretty fast.You also get National REIA benefits like discounts and rebate programs at Home Depot, Sherwin Williams and lots of other things.  

There are loan programs that would allow a potential buyer to buy and close on the property in "As-Is" condition, finance the costs of the renovation and begin the renovation after the loan closes.

More lenders are offering the Homestyle renovation program in the past few months. 

Hi @Paulie Moore ,If your interested in development I would highly recommend you check out the UW's Certificate in Commercial Real Estate program - it was fantastic.

After being given the pitch for the 5-figure mastery program (cheapest level: 20k), I left early to do some research and found this site instead.

then BP is one great big degree program on real estate investing. 

There are many programs, government or privately funded, that can let you buy with less down.

While going through the Homepath site looking at their properties I saw that as of 10.6.14 they will be 'retiring' the home path program.  

My team are all graduates of the Fortune Builders Mastery Program and believe strongly in continuing education. 

Bank Alternate programs are fairly painless if one of LLC members is a weak link credit wise.