The larger named companies often offer more structured training programs (pre-licensing classes teach next to nothing about "being an agent").

Now that I'm here I'm excited to learn all aspects of real estate and plan to teach my children what I learn.

I like that you didn't change the exterior look of the home too much, like so many do when going into the older areas, keeping its cottagey classic style!!! 

I am also willing to scrub toilets and paint walls as long as you are willing to teach me :)!

It isn't about management style or culture, it's about which elements of the supply and production chain are under one roof.

After one year the bank allows re-fi and then you pay off the line of credit and roll into a conventional style loan.

Learn from someone who is successful and will teach you the ways.

The ARV is based on sold homes within a quarter mile radius, in the same sub-division, of similar size, build, age (all built in 1993), lot size, and style including a house two doors down that sold for $635,000 three months ago.

We closed an FHA on a 3-plex in February and I close a SFR turnkey-style fix and hold on Friday.

So with no money he found a mentor that would teach him the business for the inside, aka, sweat equity.