You have an independent contractor agreement/relationship with your broker.  

IMO, the best start to financial independence in REI is to purchase a property where you can rehab it, rent it, refinance and pull your investment out and repeat until you have your $4-5k in cash flow.  

Independence title

Here is the link to the NCREC statistics on "approved" schools and their pass/fail rate.  

Nothing worthwhile is accomplished without some hard work.When you begin your journey to financial independence, first you must determine where you want to go.

@Linda Collins - I would find a local independent insurance agent.

I’m in the housing business and that’s all I can handle at this time I shall always be grateful to those people who sold me on the proposition that investing in income producing real estate was truly a solid and proven pathway that leads to financial independence.

If financial independence is your goal, then living frugally is more powerful that increasing your income IMO.

But it's a bit of a stretch to then try to hold him to blanket-agree with the rest of your sentence: "how much you pay relative to ....the long term trends of market pricing" - which I would view as a different metric altogether, and may have little if anything to do with ongoing rent returns vs CURRENT purchase/market price.Sure, Dave will watch the look of his investment neighborhoods - but statistics are fickle! 

Firearm discharge, statistically, is higher in towns with a higher military concentration.