If it's not your type of flavor of income property then I would move on.  

If you want the full flavor of the narragansett debate look at http://narragansettresidentsunite.org/ vs. https://narragansett2100.com/ They have oppossing views on the unrelated person ordinance.

Details of the portfolio deal here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/440161-offer-submitted-on-32-unit-portfolioI'm celebrating this evening with a limited edition cigar from 2010 and a delicious rare bourbon to match. 

Off market usually involves wholesaling in some flavor, or another where an investor puts a property under contract and assigns it to another for about a 5-7k profit, or dual closing where the wholesaler is closing on a purchase, and immediately selling it to another investor - the purpose being to make maximum profit without disclosing profit made.Realtors can help you with both options, but primarily the ones listed on MLS.  

And when you are at the "free" training, you should be able to notice that the power point presentation slides will have inconsistent background graphics - these are selected slides taken from the varying modules that are to be sold, so you get a flavor for the content of all modules without all of the meat [some of the trainers have caught onto this and gottne their background graphics to look alike between modules].My suggestion: take the free training and avoid the upsell; more training and info are available elsewhere.

At the end of the day we all want money to afford the things we want to accomplish and have in life.Given that no matter who you are you only have so much time in the day.You can leverage people to do more in the same amount of time but the time remains the same.I want to flip this around.A great broker will not only be working with investors but doing deals of their own.If the investor has the know how they can get licensed and do it themselves.Some investors are professionals like lawyers,doctors,cpa's and want to invest but have no time.They need a broker to help them with their goals.There is plenty of business out there for everyone and there are many flavors of investors.If I only have so much time in the day I as a broker want to maximize my return.I can sell a 1 million dollar commercial property and use the same time as selling a 50k property but my returns will be way less.

My mom has been a teacher in the Lakewood school district for the past 17 years and is very familiar with the neighborhoods and the flavor of the community.

Sometimes, grocery stores have sales and it makes sense to buy something delicious. 

@Ryan Bird Financial Advisors come in many different flavors to include compensation structures and areas of expertise.  

Think Berkshire Hathaway BHHS or keller Williams or exp or Remax or Weichert or Coldwell banker plus whatever local flavor brokerages you have in town that are usually on a 50/50 - 70/30 split model.