The cost of their services is more than fair for the amount of oversight and frontline tasks they engage in. 

Start by learning as much as you can and working as an agent will give you lot of experience and knowledge.Join real estate investment clubs.Have clear investment goals.Understand the local market and potential growth aspects.Get in touch with a local agent or investor and shorten your learning curve and save you a lot of headaches as they tend to understand the market better.All the best!

I am a full time real estate agent as well and love teaching buyers about investment and the growth potential real estate has.

@Mike Schorah you can thank gurus, social media, podcasts and sites like this for the explosive growth in wholesaling.

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

That would spread out the risk and let me participate with them in their growth while they participate with me in returning cashflow and equity.Then, if I wanted to have a more direct approach perhaps I'd funnel the cashflow and Return of Capital from these syndications into direct ownership of assets in a hybrid market in the U.S.

Even if Jersey City has the highest rent growth in the country but the rent growth is slowing.

I’d flip and I would brrrr and I would grow the liquidity. 

As you gain experience and cash flow, your growth will accelerate.

So, there’s going to be some growth for years to come.