Many thanks to those on this great forum who are willing to share their knowledge & experience.

Thanks for all of your advises, it turns out this agent is in the middle of quitting (or being fired) from the current broker and getting in to another; he has been sitting on doc for over 3 weeks (mostly basic REO disclosures that needed to be signed and return to selling agent) that he didn’t know how to pull them out of Windforms (Realtor Online Contract data base); asked seller’s agent questions about them over and over; lack of REO knowledge (REO Specialist printed on his card) and couldn’t care less for his last few clients…Relayed the facts above (with a little help from the selling agent) in addition to the tangible misled evident to my agent’s boss and got only 18 moths worth HOA fee ($810) credited.Yes, another rookie’s lesson learn; just didn’t think he would be that much out of line for a major issue like such; considering he’s a 72 year old guy with shallow ethic.

The house has illegal bedrooms, faulty wiring etc, things that needed to be explained in person and was going to make an awesome shortsale.Anyhow, I specifically told him to take the realtor lockboxes off, or replace them with combination boxes and don't put the combination in the listing.Sure enough, both banks managed to get appraisals without my knowledge, and now we are facing the battle of the bank thinking its way too high of a value.Anyway, figured I would share this, its one of the first things I tell everyone.

I am sure you will find a vast array of information, tools and knowledge here.

I'll defer to others more knowledge for that.

The information shared and knowledge of the speakers was very good.

As you get more knowledgable you will probably want to try to buy for yourself than just get bird dog fees.

For most new investors, the most difficult deal not only to find, but to pull the trigger on, is your first one.The best thing is to educate yourself and surround yourself with knowledge.

I'm sure everyone here would appreciate some new knowledge that could be helpful.

As Tim said, you can get alot of knowledge free, and books are cheap too.