For example, stay away from those seminars. You know the ones. No Money Down seminars. Real Estate for Cheap seminars. Those things. You have to sit through a sales pitch that typically lasts no less than three hours, listening to someone trying to sell you books, DVDs, CDs, and goodness knows what else by people who claim to be real estate experts full of trade secrets. Those people are full of something, all right, but if you listen to them, something really important to you will be empty — your wallet.

These things are full of bunk. They will not provide you with any helpful information. They will, however, provide you with all the tools you need to make sure no qualified real estate agent is going to want to touch you with a ten foot pole. You’ll wind up making a bunch of ridiculously low offers on homes you cannot afford, and you will get rejected every time.