You the pilot fish get an easy snack or information and lesson and the shark your mentor gets to stay healthy and clean.

If you want to do it on your own you will need to use those sorts of sites.

I went up to the house to do cleaning and inspect the property and found that they had broke the door frame of the front-exterior door causing the door not to shut. 

BiggerPockets is a great site to get started learning about real estate investing.

It seems like a decent prospect for appreciation and cashflow since it's situated between JHU and Penn Station and is the site of a fairly substantial development project (Telesis), but I understand the strength of the deal will be determined by what price and condition I acquire the property at. 

In the previous example I just cut the tree down and had roto rooter clean the line out one final time.

In our discussion he is ready to sell that house and then he tells me he has 25 properties (I had already seen that on the Tax Assessors site) and he said he would like to sell all of the properties.

House all cleaned out, locks changed, needs about two days worth of work.

just a couple of reasons:No one can buy ALL the deals themselves.Many monetization feeds on a highly ranked site (book sales, pro membership, etc) Trust through notoriety can have a high return on investment (see M.I/oceanpointe for negative example)None of these are good or bad in and of themselves.

DFW is a wonderful area and BP is a great site to get all of your questions answered.