What is your advice for us new agents to get started in this market?

I don't do much "creative" financing cause time is wasted dealing through gatekeepers/agents, I do my creativity usually by buying deep or making a market for someone needy.

When the housing market improves, the median home values increase. 

Has everyone noticed that the rental market in PGH been especially difficult this year?

Combined with the price I paid through the auction, they are much higher than market valueproperty 1: paid 100k, owe 170k.

I don't know your market, so I would not be able to advise you, but just consider the sellers motives and make the terms beneficial for both parties. 

To find a house where the seller is willing to sell it to you Sub2 the existing loan you need to do quite a bit of marketing.

Well, have a couple of competitors that are exclusively apartments/dev land for same.Their marketing is targeted at investors along with the mailing list.However, yes, you can get bad/good brokers in the same firm. 

In market's like these, sometimes it's smart to stay cash heavy. 2.

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