but now a days with all the new blood and young folks out there that are very SMART these kind of deals really don't happen.

Its either in your blood or not.  

People bonded by blood or marriage tend to be committed.

Without going into details, I think I am good at what I do at helping investors.HOWEVER, it's not making me any $$ and it's making my brokerage frustrated at me LOLThey want me to remove the INVESTOR part of my business and become a REALTOR.They say if I spend as much time with regular buyers/sellers I would be making $$.According to them, investors are "blood sucking vampires" that want everything for nothing.

Clearly you have bad blood for contractors, their are plenty of good honest trustworthy contractors in this world.

Don't even think about turning a house in a development into an STR without getting the planning and zoning department approval signed in blood.  

Hey @Amber Brown there's some good advice here and the one by @Patrick Britton might feel like a slap in the face but that's because deep down one might feel there's more truth to it than one would like to admit at the moment, especially after investing so much blood, sweat and tears into a venture.Darwin's theory of the "survival of the fittest" always holds true.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

If you have that situation then you could be facing procuring cause issues and bad blood/bad feelings.If you have 2-3 agents who have automatic emails going to you every day out of the MLS and you're seeing the same properties in all of the emails, you have a real issue on your hand and you need to resolve that quick.

I switched to TK investing and lowered my blood pressure!