There are some DIY kits floating around the internet for a couple of hundred.

Now, if you are truly an independant contractor or an employee and you have done adminstrative support tasks for that Realtor, like taking pictures, setting out signs, filing, etc, they can pay you, but not based on a per centage of a sale.

I especially enjoy the ones where you take people to task about this supposed Holy Grail 50% “rule†and I share most of your thoughts there.I didn’t find much wrong with the post referenced either, although I did vote for some of the subsequent comments.

Right now, I seem to be spread out between a lot of different "startup" tasks and am not actually get much accomplished.I know I need to market, setup a buyers list, find title companies, find an agent.

-Go home and if you still want to invest in that city, start looking via the internet and start making offers.

So far i know im good in internet marketing (SEO) and gorrilla marketing online... i also have experience of being the door knocker asking distress homeowners to sell there homes or to do a short sale with a broker before the bank takes over.

You can generally search courthouse records on the internet.

Some schools (NYU for instance) offer certificate of real estate programs for those wishing to learn real estate in an academic environment but without the time, money and hassle of obtaining a degree.The very smart, motivated and technically proficient can search the internet and probably be able to piece together their own "course of study" in real estate.

My business plan for next year is to outsource most of the time-consuming tasks in my business;Property searches for cash buyers, putting up properties on my wordpress website, following up with prospect, etc.Have you used a virtual assistant with much success?

Since I knew the property owners/family had never taken on this task themselves, they were really clueless as to how time intensive it was.