Now when people say, beware of the guru, they are referring to people who overcharge relative to the value they provide.

I finally dumped this cleaning company after several issues that popped up with various service work they had performed or supposedly performed but definitely over charged me for.  

Being from California, it's an unfair inevitability that you will get overcharged for something at some point.

Truthfully, my mental energy would be better spent pursuing other deals and opportunities rather than worrying if the painter I hired is over-charging me by a few hundred dollars.

I bet we could find a lot of examples where OP overpaid for properties,  while they were simultaneously overcharging their buyers for their work and results. 

And I agree with you someone out of state is going to take a huge risk trying to compete with Turn key guys for inventory and to get the homes rehabbed without running into yet another set of problems IE theft.. vandalism being overcharged.

You do not want to be over-charged and under-served so just ask a lot of questions.

If you bring any investor a garbage deal, they'll put you on the back-burner and ignore anything you have to say.REI is all about networking, and the more your name gets out that your over charging on sub-par properties listed on the MLS, the less people will want to work with you.If your honest, professional, and you genuinely bring a few good deals to someones attention, 99% of the time he'll do business with you again.

HVAC techs love this kind of repair because it's easy for them to switch out the parts, laboriously clean the blower fan in front of you, blame it all on you, and overcharge you to the moon.This is really a very simple deal.

I don't let my Property mang. take care of small issues because they over charge.