I have also had wonderful success with the local newspapers and an easy to remember and use web address directly to the house they are looking for might make it easier for them to see the property immediately.

Wholesale deals are pretty easy to set up, you need to find properties that won't sell retail and you need buyers who can profit, by flipping it or leasing it.You can find properties that don't seel on the MLS, look for expired listings to start with.

At first I eyed her with skepticism of course, wondering if she thought this was going to be an easy ride.

So if 10% return on a NNN is what your looking for, that is easy...As the ROI goes up and the risk stays low, the difficulty in locating the deal increases.Areas with little investor activity, and a change in employment are gold mines for both buy hold and flips.

There are some more complex mathematical ways to calculate backwards such as using a Net Present Value calculation but if this is all new, stick with the easy math first.

They are not easy to get, expensive, and bring a wealth of great information.

Yes long term leases can enter into the picture but that is easy to avoid if you know how, but again never a problem even once.

It's easy to consume learning....

Otherwise it can get complicated as you really are putting buyers and sellers together, facilitating sales.You need to read your state statutes very carefully word for word as to what requires a real estate license and then don't do those things if you don't have a license.You can be an employee or memebr in a LLC that buys or sells, as a principal, in other words if BAC LLC buys a property and you are a memeber of BAC LLC, you can then be entitled to profits for the work you perform in that LLC.Another way is for you to take an option to buy and then sell your option, this is placing you in a position of havine an interest in the transaction, but those you sell to may have financing issues with this, it also depends on property restrictions or title limitations as beeing seen as sales during a restriction to conveyances, again check and see how these issues are viewed locally.Generally, you can not act as a third party between a buyer and seller and simply arrange or introduce deals and be paid a fee independly as that is a function of a real estate agent/broker.Lastly, it's easy to get a bad reputation amoung Realtors if you're known as a birddog, they will likely see you as unlicensened competiton and expect them to complain and report your activities.

They make it sound easy.