**********************************My comment: It's very difficult to become proficient, let along capable, let alone be worth hiring if the agent only sells a couple of houses a year.

The chatbot (AI agent) will have access to the internet and the listings data thus it can proficiently answer your questions.

Same goes for agent's in negotiating proficiency, there is the guppies and the sharks.

The people in the WSO are pretty tough on the LPs and perhaps that is deserved but I think we need to help LPs by getting GVT to increase accredited investor standards, both $ net worth, and perhaps requiring people pass a basic financial knowledge proficiency exam, just WOW, i'm sure Ashcroft isn't the only one.....  

I have no idea how people with no experience in remodeling, business, and management expect to become proficient in flipping a house."

A fairly low barrier to meet and nothing to indicate the ability to proficiently or financially oversee a construction project.

And second, I could really use some help from someone proficient in these type of investment, as well as in generally moving away from real estate to other sorts of things to put my money in.

If an agent can't rattle out minimum of 3 purchase strategies with 3 exit strategies for any 1 property, they should NOT present themself as being proficient, they should be HONEST and say there not 100%. 

Just yesterday I gave my (imo) balance view of the use of “subject to” in real property transactions, and was told by a very proficient poster in response to my post that anyone who thinks subject to transactions are ok is GARBAGE. 

I am proficient in investing and confident in earning 7-10% returns in the market over the next decade or two.