The money on paper may look good on some of the cheap homes, but the reality is often very different.

Not to mention, can lead to lower insurance premiums as you can often push the coverage when claims arise on the bad actor (as long as your contracts are papered correctly and your insrurance certificates are in order). 

I wrote the numbers out, with a side by side comparison to the traditional sale, from now until he invests his sale cash into paper (which is the norm). 

You are what they are looking for: Liquid, with great credit and lots of experience.Cause at the end of the day most of these loans are securitized and sold off to groups of investors who actually hold the paper. 

On old paper applications the written permission applicants signed giving was usually to pull credit and background checks I think but with the Zillow process that is all taken care of before the application is submitted and you get those reports.

So yeah, that was a tough year to write a big check for a piece of paper! 

It may look great on paper, but then the tenants are not paying rent, they need to be evicted, and every single unit needs a turnover and now you are underwater.

Legally, if this situation happened in PA, per our lease, we are not required to do anything at all.

Reading all the books and watching the Bigger Pockets videos, everything seemed to make sense on paper but was so difficult in practice.

I'm providing context for the data; I'm solving actual problems that the appraiser is facing at the moment he's facing them; I'm making the data I'm providing not just a bunch of sheets of paper, but a significant part of the process.For example, when the appraiser starts asking, "So, are these cabinets brand new?"