Grandcollector,Taking the Real Estate Investment Plunge is great when you have a team and you have a purpose.

Being listed on the MLS serves no purpose in developing exposure/awareness of your property with the buying public in NY, and you should insist on a committment from your real estate agent to market/advertise in mediums that buyers are more apt to see it (buyers don't find homes via the MLS, agents do).

100$ bucks a year is 8$/month... just skip lunch once a week and you got it covered.. haah.. i dont think thats enough to worry about, even for resale purposes, i dont think anyone would flinch at that.

I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm trying to determine the SAM for real estate investing, eg what portion of properties sold will be used for investment purposes, either through mortgage type data or some other source.

While many do come here and do work that is very tough, quite a few come here for the sole purpose to cause MAYHEM, to get free services like medical, education and food.

Put extra cleanouts if the main line clogs and backup to the foot vent you need to be able to service the line.AAV can serve it's purpose, but I look at it as a last resort.

Is the sole purpose of the meetings to go through the auction inventory and figure out which are good buys?

Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of offering seller-carry? 

Its purpose is to make things more efficient.

I look through it and found that some of the points were taken off unreasonably as though he failed me on purpose.