I have bought training and I have sold training.  

Your best bet is to find a brokerage with a great training program, hook up with an agent willing to mentor you and use you as a buyers agent or assistant etc.  

With the regulations in place now on coal and the ones still in the pipeline it will kill coal.mid winter coal trains were coming into price several times a week now its 1 once a week most time 1 every 2 weeks.

The areas with access to train have pretty much been developed.

If you are a good wholesaler, then you go to the people who have been disappointed with realtors, who are only trained to appease the seller.

I think the trend will swing back from renting and group psychology about "rising real estate values" will kick in just as it did 10-15 years ago.Yes I think we should keep buying to get more pieces on the board (boats in the water to rise), but completely disregard any potential appreciation both in terms of our return calculations and psychologically (in other words, don't get caught up in the coming "real estate boom" psychology and buy marginal properties or cash flow negative properties expecting appreciation).That may mean doing fewer deals but it's a price I'm personally willing to pay.There are also some broader economic issues which could throw in some systemic risk and gum up the works, such as Russia-Ukraine, the Chinese economy, the European economy (and some of its weaker members like Greece), etc.So in my mind I think there are three possible scenarios: 1) 1/3 likely to have steady good growth in RE values (scenario of U.S. economy continuing to do reasonably well but little/tepid real wage growth), 2) 1/3 likely to have another boom (scenario of U.S. economy doing very well and finally having real wage growth for the first time in a long time), and 3) 1/3 likely to have the train get derailed by external factors such as the world economy, some kind of war, etc.In all of those scenarios it seems to me that good, cash flowing properties will be good to have.

For the middle of the country, you have got to get it put on a combo of trucks and trains and sent across the country and shipping costs by weight add up pretty quickly on really heavy items like granite slabs.

$108 SQFT 3800 Bessemer SFR fits the ticket under $150K and if you go 15 yr @ 3.5% this is what it looks like in 7 years if your driving force is equity.May 2022$929.35$700.63$228.72$25,782.46$77,717.28

I know that this is something that takes education and training and I'm ready and willing to be in this for the long haul.

For the most part I understand the course work and training involved and I already have someone lined up to work under as an apprentice.