When I value things I look at them right now as they sit, not what they COULD be in the future.

This would be a 1031 up-leg for me, so I cannot have my sales proceeds sitting in a qualified exchange account for longer than 180 days (45-day identification period). have you selected an intermediary yet?

And seller's Realtors had to really work hard to push their client's properties out there to the public and prospective buyers.Now, I find all they do is list your place on the MLS and sit back and wait for a call.

Has become super common with these wholesalers learning how to create terms on deals that have been sitting on market for a while. 

Depending on the time of the week, he will ask the maid to do it and it's sitting out there a few days. 

You can have the most beautiful kitchen, floors, and an overall great rehab, if sales are declining in the area or properties with similar rehabs are sitting on the market for several months, the appraiser will cut your value. 

I have found that Redfin actually has pretty good search parameters to where you can look for listings that have been sitting a while that fit your buy box, and you can even do keyword searches for things like "as is", "investor", "seller financing", "guest house", etc. depending on what you are looking for.

The properties typically all brick construction sitting on hard corners with red light and good traffic counts.As for 30 minutes on the phone I do that for clients only.

Learning that I prefer money invested in real estate over money sitting in the bank... don't we all?!

Personally if it is generating $110k cash flow whether before or after taxes, I would just sit in it.