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Are "at home real estate property locators' legitimate and scam free jobs?

I received a notice in email today that realtors in my area are looking for work at home real estate property locators. They say you can train live online, at your leisure, and can make really decent money locating property for real estate investors. What type of skills would one have to possess in order to be successful as a real estate property locator? Thank you for you time in answering my question.

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1. What you are locating is homes not currently for sale and convincing the owner to sell via such and such real estate agent. I doubt you would make much money, if it were easy they would do it themselves.
2. A property locator job isn't usually a legit job because 75% of the realtors in your market are actually doing the same thing as a part of their real estate business and have more market knowledge than you are likely to attain training online. The necessary skills are a combination of identifying undervalued homes, knowing what a rehab would cost, and being able to determine its likely fair market value would be after rebailitation. Every real estate investor is looking for the deal of the century so the competition is fierce. Sometime they want you to identify and approach preforclosure properties which can get sticky since the owners see you as a vulcher. If you aren't afraid of hearing the word no over and over again , you might not have a problem with it.
3. Sorry - but I rather fear that you have to be very cautious as it is hardly likely. Unless you have applied through means other than email and are sure the email is 100% valid I wouldn't touch them - not with a barge pole and even then well I think I'd treat it as spam - it is not worth the risk... Check out the local paper and or employment agency if there are any similar jobs which are 0k then these are where to look assuming you are after a job.