If you have to go outside the cookie cutter box then that is when points comes in because the fee can't be build into the rate.  

Everyone in Real Estate Investing knows that no two deals will work the same way, so a cookie cutter app will eliminate a lot of good deals because they don't know how to work with the investor.

It's a system, a cash machine created/rigged so that, in the long term, the casino always wins.

I owned part of and ran our family business(Zippy Lube-A-Truck, which is a quick lube for big rigs) up until about 10 years ago and have been a stay at home dad for the past 8 years.

I am looking for a cookie cutter house, and so I use cookie cutter numbers, so to speak.  

The drilling companies are the first to show up (boom) and the first to almost completely vacate an area (crash) and variable demand between those times.Now I know many good honest people that work on the drilling rigs and most companies have strict policies.

These are not cookie cutter transactions and an agents experience is valuable.  

Cookie cutter policies are usually out of touch and often don't address local needs. 

More accurate of you are looking at cookie cutter houses with tons or local comps, but still can be wrong because at the end of the day its a formula.What i really suggest doing is using redfins search to look at recently sold houses in the area.

With a heater rigged up they are hanging drywall in t shirts upstairs while the lower levels are freezing.