Because significantly less than 100% of your investment actually goes into purchasing or improving the property, and the property is purchased at retail value (or worse), your returns will badly lag any benchmark of direct property investment.  2.

As a wholesaler, hopefully hearing from some of you with experience with these sites, what are the advantages or disadvantages of each of these sites respectively... as far as which search criteria to use on each platform?

You can add notes to any transaction also, so later if you want to search for a vendor (you gas company, insurance) you can search by the actual vendor or something you put in your notes. 

Title company will need formation docs, and operating agreement to prepare deed and title docs and lender will need formation docs and operating agreement for lien search and loan docs.

We've gotten great residents who we met despite their original search on FF being way below market.

Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).

Hence, the search continues.

After arrival they're disappointed to find it's not a private bedroom, which leads to disgruntled guests that search for way to get a refund and leave bad reviews.

We are also working on export to Word doc functionality for the SOW which will allow you to export the SOW to Word so you can make additional customizations.I'm a bit of a perfectionist and still want to improve the functionality of some of our tools before we start charging for the software, but I think we will likely be ready to officially launch sometime in April. 

You can refinance sooner than that but you'll need to paper trail all of the improvement costs that lead to the increase in value.