I'm interested in looking at West Michigan too - have to believe there's probably some places in Grand Rapids or maybe Kalamazoo (shudder) as well as perhaps higher end places in Rochester, Troy, Royal Oak, etc...I have family in Houston so I'm familiar with it, but I don't have any business connections or understanding of the market. 

I am excited about the networking and learning opportunities the site offers.I little about myself: I have graduated from college about 2 years ago and moved to Houston to work in the Oil and Gas Industry.

I'm from Houston by the way. :)

Houston Texas. 

Hey all.I recently drove from Boston to Houston. 

For anyone that knows Houston, the property is near Westheimer and BW8, just a bit west.Purchase price: 150,0004 units, all filled.

It can push sky rocketing valuations in good times and very low valuations in bad times. 

. , I'm looking for people here in Houston who are involved in real estate investing or have thought about getting involved in real estate investing and would like to get together and mastermind and see what cool ideas we can come up with.I have a great space in the Westchase District.

Real estate investing isn't rocket science, and there is no secret magic technique that anyone can teach you.

It isn't rocket science.If you are making offers on listed properties then there is a commission that you can collect as a buyers agent, even if you are the buyer (Some REOs will not let a principal in the transaction collect commission).If it is an off market deal there is no commission involved so nothing to collect.On the end side if you are just assigning then again no commission involved.If you end up selling this retail on the MLS then you are listing it and you will pay some amount of commission as a co-broke and whatever your broker will have as a minimum commission going to the office (In my case I do a reasonable percentage which I get my normal split on).If your broker/team leader is trying to skim some commissions off your off-market deals they are probably not the best people to be working for if you want to wholesale.