I am also on the early retirement train.

I'm taking real estate investment training courses and reading everything I can get my hands on. 

I am attending a four day training event in Chicago from Sept 30th to Oct 3rd.

In essence you are saying they are trained "not" to give me accurate advise that would aid in my purchasing decision, which explains why I had such a hard time finding a realtor of any value.I do not think you are appropriately applying how the fair housing law applies as it relates to a realtors role with their clients.  

Hi Ya'll,My name is Pamela. Today I relaunched my BiggerPockets account after taking a backseat over the Spring/Summer. As a Real Estate Agent in NYC, it was too difficult to begin this venture during my peak season. ...

Hi my name is Carlos live in Rancho Cucamonga,Ca...Retired 2 years ago was a Land Surveyor and worked all over Southern California for 30 years....Am a Newbie and want to Learn Wholesaling,have gone to a few 2 hour Guru seminars and they are all the same sign up for 3 Day Workshop and then they Hit you up for the real training another $5,000-$15,000 LOL !!

Just be who you are, and save the sales trainings for your business dealings.So I would like to ask you Jason if you were to have a check list of all the vital information needed for people here to help me, what would it include?

But it's long distance (which does have costs, even just one plane ticket from CA and back).  

I highly recommend them; you can get the equivalent training as you might from the gurus without all the hype.My wife and I are wholesalers and flip an occasional house.  

So either way you are touching the transaction each month if you want to maintain accurate books, however the amount of time this takes is extremely minimal and anyone at a later date could be trained to do this.