Or is this to train newbies to eventually have worker bees since most won't survive?

I agree with the above, except I would make one alteration:"It is easier to sell the dream (easy money based on a simple system requiring little money down except for the big chunk of money for the training and little risk) than to sell the truth that making money in real estate usually requires knowledge, time, money, effort, personal sacrifice and risk."

The software vendor for our MLS system is Rapattoni , and I haven’t even been to the training class, just test driving at this point.My initial focus was to identify good flipping neighborhoods by looking for aggregations of MLS “consumer” sales/listings/pendings (not lender or short sales) in the past 9 mths throughout my broad target areas, in the exit price range I wanted to focus on initially (100-150K).

I say "pretty strict" because I have made exceptions...once for a small very well trained dog and again for a long term, excellent, clean tenant to get a cat.

Is there a way to compromise and crate-train them when not supervised?

A strong team, loyal well trained employees, stong lender relationships, and being just plain crazy will get your through it!

Perhaps a business law class would be helpful too, but that training is too broad to be super helpful in specific situations.

We used the smart move trains union background check we found here on BP.Just excited and very thankful to all the members on this site.

You can peek at the studs and see if it's water running down from the roof, or seeping past the siding without any special training.

I recently attended a meeting and offered my knowledge and my company billed 100/hour for my time - because I am a highly trained, college educated engineer.