That great agent should save you more in market expertise, negotiating skills, and advice than they'll ever receive in commission - in other words, they should add value (not be viewed as a necessary evil or an interchangeable commodity).  

I bought his program but never received it.

I received the story from the RE Center at Texas A&M. 

This has been an excellent site for learning and networking and I highly recommend the podcasts too. 

@Patrick Daniel i actually did get one of those market analysis and it was quite impressive but honestly found it useless. not enough to warrant my time to go through. basically i found a property i liked, received the market analysis of comps in the same area with identical features and all that stuff and basically was 50+ pages. i already knew going in where i had to be at, but it was interesting to see that comprehensive report.....not familiar with a buyer's list but will do some research on that. i think with me being new and having specific criteria (e.g., no complete rehab), thought mls was the best route. interesting. 1 out of every 95-100 offers...interesting stat. 2 rejected offers on the same property, so a long way to go haha. it's very tiring to look at so many properties only to find maybe 1 that falls in your criteria and then only to get rejected. the waterfall of looking at properties to getting an offer accepted is demotivating when i take a step back and look at that conversion rate (i'm a digital marketer full time so i look at it from that perspective). thanks for the responses!

We received about 10 service calls within the first 2 weeks and everything was fixed. 

I've heard that this junior mortgage will get wiped out and that they will then receive nothing if that happens when it goes to auction.I would greatly appreciate any experts advice and guidance on this.

In the few cases of 4 stars I have received in the past couple years, there is absolutely no negative comment in the review, all positive and fantastic, worse they even want to come back (not me, lol) and then they rate 4 stars.

I've already received some quotes from insurance companies if I purchase under my own name, but am struggling a bit to get that info if I were to purchase under an LLC. 

Leave the basics. do a detailed inventory for your stuff like an excel sheet with # and condition ( no scratches, stains, burns).