It is always helpful to contact an expert in the field, especially if you are new to the game. Stay focused, motivated & educated.the system works if applied right. Once you accumulated enough money, start buying up real estate.You're 20 miles from the office and they want to make an offer on the house. Yes, you could go back to the office and normally you would have to do that. But what the heck, you ask them to give you a few minutes. You slip into your car and in ten minutes you have written the deal on your iPad and it is ready for them to sign - they'll sign your iPad. You'll email copies and life is tasty.Once you find property you want to buy you can contact the heir directly. You may have to contact an attorney or even work with a real estate agent. You can usually make a few quick calls and find who you need to deal with in order to purchase the property. In some cases you may need the court's permission, but this usually happens quickly as long as all the heirs are willing to sell and agree to the sale.I got into real estate investing because I wanted to make some serious cash. I was sick and tired of struggling financially and I hated coming home tired every night. Well, I found real estate. I started doing some single family deals but after awhile, I found that I was still as broke as I was when I first started. I needed cash flow and I needed it fast. Go after bigger fish. Commercial property investment deals offer some of the greatest cash flow and returns for an investment dollar. The number of units and the size of the properties brought the largest returns for the amount of time and money I had invested in any deal.Some of the smartest investors know this and they are buying up properties left and right. I wanted to get in on this and make some good money. The two markets in Nevada and Arizona offer large discounts and will give you huge gains if you have the right team to help you. But that's the problem. I have never learned how to do real estate and it would take me years to learn all the details of real estate investing.Commit to training and reviewing your business regularly. Continually educate yourself on using systems, lead generation methods, lead conversion, transaction management, and following a business budget.Good realtors understand the process and don't try to make you do something immoral. Even the National Association of Realtors has an online reference for the code of ethics that all real estate agents must abide by. No agent should lie to you either about the issues with your home. If there is a problem in your house such as faulty wiring, then they shouldn't try to get around a house inspector's report stating the same thing. In cases like this, pay attention to the house as you tour with a agent and read over a report closely.Buying professionally written letters and sending them to your contacts is defiantly the best way you can show yourself as the real estate professional in your area. There is some work involved in getting your mailing project off the ground. The best thing you can do is to buy your real estate letters and search the internet for a contact management system that will give you the ability to send your letters out to all groups at the same time. This way you can add new contacts and start them out with letter one while you will be mailing out letters three and four and so on at the same time to your older contacts. Contact management programs are out there at many different prices so do your shopping. I would try to find a free one by searching for an open source contact management system on the web.I advise people who want to prosper to build houses. These are the people who never have to work a day. In the case of our fix and flip, the first option would be a straight sale for maximum profits.