For the experienced agents/top sales agents, they are looking more for technology and resources from their brokers whereas the less experienced are looking for more help and training.

Just finished reading Dave Van Horn's book for the second time and ready to get this train moving :)TJ

the training as an aside.. private money lenders are NOT looking for newbies generally and are not sitting at home waiting for a guru to call and say they have a new student.you can simply talk to your local HML which is who you would use anyway if you need capital.as for learning the business there are a myrid of ways to do that.you can go to e bay and buy any and all guru course and videos for pennies... spend a few hundred on those and sift through the information.there is just so much hype that people can go from not knowing anything about real estate to be financially independent in a few short months.. and folks simply don't know what they don't know this is a long game a very long game.. and depending on were your living and working it can be very very difficult without substantial cash already.. areas of the North east and mid west you can deal in SFR's like used cars because they sell for that. if your west coast based.. much tougher

If you can succeed in 1 summer of training and door to door selling books, you can do anything!

That will give you great information and training for selling retail real estate.

U have to go through their training 

If I were your partner I would be worried you are training his “replacement”, lol.

I did 8, 1b/1b units in a small complex a few years ago as my own personal training program.  1st unit took 3 months of part time labor to complete. 

Instead of going cheep landlords should charge more rent and maintain their properties better on a ongoing bases using some of that money.

I am in the middle of training to be a helicopter pilot , the cash I have saved up could get me in a duplex (house hacking ) or I could finish school .