Thanks @Russell Brazil, great advice!

@Russell Brazil Thanks Russell, that's helpful.

Dell Schlabach l am primarily a buy-and-hold investor on owner financed properties, but have completed a few rehabs and have done several wholesale deals as well.That might be surprising that I'm advocating so strongly for Robyn's courses when she is the "Queen of Rehab" and her class is primarily geared towards that side of the business and I am primarily buy-and-hold investor, but I'll explain that below...When she teaches, she often has Larry Harbolt with her (If you haven't seen Larry's owner finance stuff, it is a first class course as well) and his techniques are more applicable to the nuts and bolts of owner financed deals, but the value that I took from Robyn in my business was from the organizational side of the RE investing business, specifically the accounting side as she has an accounting background having worked for IBM for 10+ years and the point of automating, outsourcing, and hiring folks to do that parts of the business that are not directly income-generating such as property management, filing, some lead generation, etc.

If you can figure out how to come up with the cash to get started, you can avoid having to pay that nut on every deal.

In a nut-shell, you will have to check with the MLS rules for the MLS that you are wanting to join.

I also own a condo in Brazil now which seems to also be doing well.

Anything can sound good on paper, but you need to get to the true nuts and bolts of what is going to make the investment work...the property and the people managing it on your behalf.

@Russell Brazil

Quote from @Russell Brazil: Quote from @Johnathan Le: Hey BP,I've been eager to enter the real estate market for a while now and have been a dedicated fan of BiggerPockets for years.I visited a 1-bedroom condo in Ballston yesterday, and it has a small den.After researching comparable rental prices, I believe I can rent it out for $2,700, with the lowest comp being $2,400.

But based on the original post you'd have to be nuts to agree to that.