The cream of the crop have great support staff, but you won't usually get much in the way of personal service.

You might be hoping for the "cream of the crop" but might have to accept the "cream of the crap" :)

Check out Arbuckle's Ice Cream on campus at the dairy school.

it all boils down to sales and market half or more of real estate agents cant make a go of it over time and I would say wholesaler its far more.. simply because they are working in a narrower niche with less inventory to chase and sell.. some of the wholesaling threads you have guys on here that are getting licensed simply because if they cant buy it right they don't want to waste the lead and then they list it and get some revenue that way as well.. not mention not every real estate transaction is a beat up fixer.. what happens when a friend refers you to a friend and you list a 500k home that sells in 25 days and no monkey business and you make 10k.. and so on and so forth.. but no matter the cream will rise to the top both in wholesaling and with real estate agents..

This basically gave me the cream of the crop of the low income bracket.

Don't let that one "rule" make or break a deal, but use it as a part of your overall due diligence; and if your expenses over the life of the rental come in under 50%, that's just cream :)

based on price of lots going up compared to when these companies were creaming the hangover inventory 5 years ago.. lots have doubled and tripled.Lumber is up.lack of inventory in some areas slows sales.and building is highly regional.. lots of factors.. 

It's not too close to the house and the house is a green with darker green trim and some cream colored trim. 

Not the same property.But I think because my rents are much lower than the market, tenants don't want to bother me with 'small' things and don't realize that they turn into big things, even though I've had these discussions with them.These are in a low income neighborhood, so I don't ever get the 'cream of the crop' of potential tenants and if I were to wait for those, I'd have empty units, vandalized and stripped of everything.So, it's not because they're really trying to pull one over on me, but because we're on good terms and they know they're getting a good deal and they don't want to make it difficult for me by calling to get something fixed.

And while they were responsive, our investors were getting creamed on pricing for tenant turns.