in the Bay Area, willing to share a good deal with a stranger, be about the same odds as finding a unicorn dancing on a pot of gold?

Benching around the perimeter is also an option, but that'll reduce your square footage.

Put those facts in a pot and stir in a little common sense and it tells you that they're leaving.

Brian, thanks for sharing your success story and in such detail (just happened to make a fresh pot!).

I'm logging off to go take a nap on the library bench.

If they insist on their "zestimate", kindly say thanks for stopping by and move on.As for your 2/3 BR issue with Harris county, dude, don't stir that pot.

I then left him with the advice to try and find a realtor and maybe market it himself on craigslist but to beware because that is where newbie investors that don't have a pot to you know what in go to search for their first deal so he will likely get a lot of calls from people that can't really close or have no clue what they are doing.I just wanted to help the guy out and build some trust in case he changes his mind later on down the road.

Just because you put thousands in the pot to invest doesn’t mean it’s not labor.

I have gotten private money from some strange sources and circumstances over the years, I just want to make sure it is in the pot for me to use, it belongs to who put it there, and I am the only one who can remove it. 

I like to have three distinct pots of money, rentals that cash flow, 401k and then an after tax brokerage account in the market.