By effectively eliminating investor owners, they are reducing the pool of potential buyers and essentially lowering values. 

A Non-recourse loan is similar in effect as a BK discharged traditional loan.

That being said, I do see how we could not be using our money as effectively if we did pay it off early.

Does anyone have any insight into the effect of apartment complexes on rent prices and ability to rent SFH in the same town or area of city?

The end result may be effectively the same, but if there are any issues it's much cleaner to be dealing with the individual transaction that was a problem than the trading between multiple transactions.

As the lists begin to grow larger, I am finding it would be a more effective use of my time if I were to outsource this data find.

If you have to write your content from scratch... will yours be as effective as ours for conversion and how fast can you get yours written?

This would be a good use of time for both you and effective use of time for the executor.

Don't let it effect your view of yourself as a top-shelf professional, in fact, maybe you should focus on giving such good service you can break some of those antiquated opinions!

At the same time I've heard FHA has been tightening the belt on getting into homes as cheaply as before, this I think is a good thing but who knows how it will effect the market as a whole.