In my experience, they may give you a price upfront, but they don't expect payment until they are done. 

Thank you for your advice, the only way I will gain experience is going through it.

Hello all,I have previous experience with real estate, but first timer with both raw land and tax auctions in Texas and I'm realizing now just how little I know when it comes to land.

My experience does not agree with yours as I do not see Ohio everywhere online and I invest in the Midwest. 

Could anyone with more current experience, esp in San Diego area, jump in and help? 

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Every single seller we've bought from has some type of mom and pop characteristics.From personal experience, I can tell you that masterminds are fantastic for networking.

But we basically followed David Greene's advice for finding a realtor in Long-Distance Real Estate Investing.Here's a summary of what we were looking for:* An agent who has experience being a landlord/investor and so already shares our perspective (looks for opportunity rather than curb appeal)* An agent who knows the Alexandria area well* An agent who doesn't mind showing us many houses and writing a bunch of lower offers* An agent who doesn't mind sharing their opinion about a property being wrong for us so we can move on to the next oneThere are many great meetups here.

House hacking will also give you some personal "property management" experience.

In my experience, here are the misconceptions uneducated and inexperienced note investors possess1.