I bet the expected ROI from buying 1000 lottery tickets is higher than the expected ROI of a $1000 direct mail campaign. 

Did you do the online training or classroom?

I'm a new investor in training here to learn everything I can.

But as for my $450 home inspection, and 2-$200 plane tickets along with all the other travel expenses and days taken off work, am I just screwed??

$200 per door, $100 is too skinny, it's very risky in case a big ticket item or eviction occurs.

``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````I would get your Realtor licenseI would pay someone to get started. train you.FYII got started by interviewing home sellers after my boss trained me.His employees even did marketing and set the appointment for me.I made $500 a week, he made $5K to $20K a week.I quit after I interviewed 2000+ sellers and made him rich.Then I did my own deals. 

When you put yourself between a seller and another end buyer you are trying to sell to, it can be a really tight fit, especially if you can't buy it as required.Go deeper in your learning, what is on the surface as some ploy can be a train wreck in reality.

There is plenty of highly promising/almost magical real estate investing ideas out there for beginner like me, but I tend to be very weary of things that appear too good to be true (science background here, I've been trained to be skeptical).

Immediately I could see that the margins were too slim to be worth it, but I went through the entire exercise as a matter of brain-training.

I'll be at his training in Oct.