Again, I'd love to connect with any investors, agents, wholesalers, property managers, contractors, or anyone else in the real estate business who wants to talk shop and uncover ways we may be able to do some business together!

The best way to explaining this is for you to download an IRR calculator spreadsheet or build your own simple one and play around with one.For what its worth most deals I deem meeting minimal IRR standards is 13-15% but you have to dig a little deeper to uncover the real placements of cashflows and capitalization events... and then dig even deeper to verify the assumptions such as occupancy, rent increases per year, and what reversion cap rate was used.Again I don't look for IRR cause its manipulated a lot instead I look at total return on a 5 year basis.

The mindset that "I can get there that much quicker if it's in X market vs Y market is flawed."

How did you uncover the several years in prison with drug charges?

Figure out wha their Problem is and solve that  The fundamentals of your response is wrong.If someone doesn't want to sell or if they have no problems to solve, no matter how many times with what method you reach them you won't make a deal.No matter how hard you try to be friends, the flaw here is, that all this is all good and dandy IF there was motivation to sell.Motivation is an absolutely necessary condition for any of this to work.The system you all are discussing doesn't filter out motivation.

We recently had a shower remodel that was supposed to take 2 days but ended up taking 4 days of work over the course of a week because of larger issues that were uncovered during the reno.

This kind of sounds like "I know he has his flaws but he loves me Ma".

@Veronica Woods Unless their covenants and bylaws are completely flawed, that is not how the HOA is ran.  

Leaving you with a uncovered $250,000.

Every system you try will have flaws or you'll salivate over a feature that shows up in other software.