No matter if the market is hot or cold, you will still have to do the work to research to find out where to invest.

not knowing what type of investing you are looking to do wholesale, fix and flip or buy and hold, it should not make a difference and i would suggest you set up a separate LLC from your real estate brokerage and one for your real estate investing since those are basically 2 different company's. 

I'm curious what other people set as initial goals and strategies.Brian Dps: I'm going at this full time.

Shoot me a PM so we can set something up!

Is this illegal or a better way to set it up without feeling like I'm cheating the system.

Stick to your first set of numbers - don't erase them to make the deal work.

We then set up with title when it came time to close.  

You can set a "Reserve" for the auction so if you do not get enough you are only out pre-auction marketing costs.

I was able to help several set up a bank account, LLC, and even checked out properties for them in my neck of the woods.

If they just passed away it could be how they set up their estate (it's either being handled by an unrelated person or different last name relative).