I plan to get my real estate agent license soon and get a membership to my local MLS to use for comps but until then what else is out there for running comps??  

Would be grateful for opinions on whether REIN membership cost is worth it?

It is a barebones closing - attorney does no loan, inspection, property insurance, survey stuff. 

Find one that can be custom to your needs, has flexible pricing, no long-term, high-cost memberships, and excellent customer services to determine how to best market to your leads.

I've recently signed up for a pro membership and started working with the calculators. 

NAA surveys apartments across the nation and has good comparisons for expenses by MSA. 

I though my membership covered this?

$500.00 gone.Folks, you need to calibrate your BS Meters, get off the internet, I don't know of an industry that has more scams running and predatory dealers than real estate, in a local survey a few years ago around here, the professionalism of used car dealers was rated higher than Realtors/Landlords.

The general meetings can get a little pitchy, but use it to find out about membership, vendors and the invaluable "Focus Groups".

Ideally what I’d recommend and what we do for the majority of our holdings is - When we first close on the building we do a cost seg survey “as is”.