If you can't afford a few grand then you really are never going to make it anyway.even if you are out their on your own to be proficient you need to spend money on your own advertising etc. access to MLS  and used correctly alone will pay for the license many times over.. and you never know when you may become a rock star agent top end agents make far more money than 99% of wholesalers you will listen to on this site especailly the part time investors  LOL.. they are part time for a reason.. they are not RE professionals.

Give you the wherewithal to pursue and achieve your long-term goalsMany investors start off "too hot", and they either overdevelop their first property or they spend their money too fast - either of these behavior will stop you dead in your tracks, and you probably won't even be able to achieve your short-term goals - and you certainly won't have the resources to pursue your long-term goals.  

As far as the advertising, if you want to pursue this and spend your money, try sellpoint, it will post your property to 40 other websites (but some of them will already have the property due to the MLS.)Good Luck,Javier T. 

A lot of the advise I am getting is to not be afraid to market myself and spend they money to do so.

Once we ran out of cash for something we stopped spending.

One thing I would advise is renting a car and spending your last day driving back through the area for a second glance and driving up and down several streets.  

Right now what I'm facing is:1) Buy a 3-family home for investment (can't live in it, as it's too far from work), spend about $100K in cash to purchase + repair, to get about $300/month net cash flow after expenses.   

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We do this type of deal regularly and for just $10,000 we control a home that after we spend $40,000 fixing the home and sell it for $460,000 we will deposit $40,000 in a bank account that will pay our seller $1,000 per month for 40 months, and we will keep the ballance.Jim

Give you the wherewithal to pursue and achieve your long-term goalsMany investors start off "too hot", and they either overdevelop their first property or they spend their money too fast - either of these behavior will stop you dead in your tracks, and you probably won't even be able to achieve your short-term goals - and you certainly won't have the resources to pursue your long-term goals.