There's many factors that can influence your investment, both good and bad.

Tell everyone and your sphere of influence what you do and be able to back it up with your successful deals.

That is the mentality of, usually, newer unsophisticated operators, you could be in RE for 30 years and still be an unsophisticated operator/investor.By unsophisticated I mean they lack an in depth understanding of investing or the ramifications and influences of their actions.By nature people take the path of least resistance, do you know how hard it is to get a kid to check the oil in a lawnmower before they start it?

If I had to guess: - The bank is doing an Appraisal for list price - The REO listing agent is cospiring by performing or influencing the appraisal value to help them double/triple-end the deal - Then the listing agent is presenting your offer to the bank pre-MLS as a full price offer. ..

It will still be a charge-off and the fact that you paid won't have any influence on your score.So, what you want them to do is to give you in writing that they won't validate the loan to the credit reporting agencies, when they get an inquiry.

My concern is that if I am wholesaling (which is my focus to start) I may not have the ability to influence who the deal closes with, in which case, where is my value to this attorney?  

Fortunately, serious people who want facts that make for correct investment results they are not so easily influenced on such substantial net worth changing matters by just reading blogs.

In fact besides being a factor that I think would help save us from a total real estate crash, its also probably a factor in influencing some of these local bubbles.

If you delegate tasks out you'll find your sanity will maintain its current level, your risk will be mitigated in most circumstances and your network of influence will exponentially increase which could lead to more deals.

I don't keep track of the market out there anymore, but to me it seemed like the market on Oahu was influenced greatly by international investors.