Calling all seasoned real estate agents, (5+ years of experience), I am a brand spanking new agent, (I passed my state exam three weeks ago and joined Coldwell Banker almost two weeks ago), and I would love to hear your best advice for a newbie starting out. 

I've put in 12 - 18 hour days, 6 days a week, working on building this vision - from concept to logistics, marketing strategies, market identification, building a network of vendors, chatting with investors, building business development strategies that have passed proof of concept, creating hiring strategies and an online HR management system, building a social media presence, creating marketing agency-grade marketing collateral, establishing branding, website building, building relationships with hard money lenders, you name it, I've worked on it and achieved success there.

In the post WWII economy, we have seen growth down and then up in all cities, but not as much in regards to brand new cities.

A wraparound mortgage basically creates a brand-new mortgage it that wraps around the existing financing and it is common in many parts of the countryAn example would say that you had an $80,000 mortgage that's worth 100,000The payment on the 80,000 was 800 a month just talking numbersThe wraparound mortgage we create $100,000 mortgage with a payment that's based on a 30 year amortization of some interest rateDodd frank limits the number of deals you can Sell On TermsFinding a lawyer that understands these and particularly a lawyer that knows what the judge would say if you had a problem with the person in the property to get them out is importantMy blog covers these "buying on terms"and Dodd Frankhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/3-reiskills-and...What the biggest thing about Dodd Frank is you can buy all the terms deals all day long from landlords as long as the person you're buying it from is an investor, Dodd Frank is about selling to owner occupantsPm me if you have questions

Hello Everyone,I'm new to BP and I just finished signing up! My name is Joel Baez and I looking to get into my first deal in the Tampa, FL area.I graduated from USF with a Bachelors in Finance and I always had an inte...

I'm tearing down these dumps and building him brand new houses on slabs in 30-40 days.  

Be aware though, that if you put your home on the MLS, either you as an agent, or your agent friend, need to make sure the listing is branded on Tulia or Zillow, or the lead will go to the agent who paid to get the lead from the get more info box next to your houses ad.  

Likely could increase the $$ spread between brand new and say 10 yr old units.Great city...I often miss it.  

So $1200 later for sanding and I had brand new flooring.

I'm looking to send a letter that is professional because i'm an agent in a smaller town where I'm well known, but I also want to offer to buy their house and suggest there are other options as well.I'm not comfortable doing the typical yellow letter style mailer/postcard, I know many people get results with those but I'm uncomfortable associating my brand and myself with that style of marketing in my small town.I've read on BP many people that have simply sent a professional letter and had great results.