And yes, if you skip one step of that YouTube video, you can get seriously hurt or killed.

When you consider unlicensed brokers skip education, testing, state licensing, ethics training, skirt and break state laws, etc I think the word "sketchy" is being polite.

@Didier Prince I would skip direct mail all together.

It probably should also be on any advertising such as the side of their vehicle (although some skip that).

Neighbors tell me that she takes several boxes to her car every couple days.Her lease ends at the end of next month, but I believe she's planning to pack up and skip town by the end of this month.

I'm also interested in connecting with any money lenders and skip tracers out there. 

I know some states allow for you to skip the education requirements and let you take the test, is Texas one of those states ?

My questions were if you guys have great results with wholesalers bringing you deals or not; and some tips on contacting expired listings (these are the ones I actually looked at - but price was not in my ballpark so I skipped).

All they can do is say no then it’s up to you how you want to proceed.For smaller deals like this you can just  make an offer contingent upon all your requests and conditions and skip the LOI.

For us newbies, he's pulling HUGE quality lists, skip tracing and giving them to us to market to, and people to help us turn resulting warm leads into deals.