So, should I take the usual route and go to college and study business, or accounting, or medicine, or something else I don't really care about in order to get a moderate-paying job, go out to the suburbs and get a cute little house and get a 9 to 5 job doing crap I don't care about, then come home and watch tv and go to sleep, then wake up the next morning and do it all over again?

Also, if a broker is too busy to commit all his time to a certain listing and he lets me do the leg work (taking measurements, pictures, putting it on mls, negotiating, etc) would it be considered normal for that broker to get a cut of the final commission?

Even normal deals sometimes have an out or town buyer or seller involves.

Wouldn't you normally take out a loan for a real estate investment?

Is that something normally done in real life (especially in TX)?

In many ways they should have gone up a long time ago as they normally stay about the short term rate.When people talk about falling bond prices and rising yields that is a signal that you will see rising mortgage rates fairly quickly after the bond movements.John Corey

Yes, they are making a big mistake because they are going to lose a bunch of money (which is opposite the normal purpose of an investment).OK.

Emails are even quicker, normally within the 1/2 hour since God's blessed us with the technology of the Treo (mobile emails).

When I put the property under contract, is this done with an attorney present like a normal closing or do I just have the seller and I sign the contract?

If you are trying to wholesale to buyers that are using conventional financing, you are in for a wake up call just as John outlined.And John, no, I am not referring to buying the property with hard money.