A problem with investment properties and home equity financing is the lender is in second position (or worse), and they perceive that as risky.

If the bonus is too small then the perceived work to reach the small return will not be worked for.So I wouldn't look at what the B and B does now but what the return would be based on your costs as an absentee owner with extra systems and bonuses in place and offer your purchase price accordingly.

If you are maxing out your IRA this would be a way that it could be perceived that you are contributing more than you are allowed.

That's because the first number thrown out will psychologically validate the perceived value of the item and will generally be taken as a good-faith offer since there is no other data to work with.When you say, "I'll give you $25K for it," it makes the seller think, "Hmmm...I was thinking $150K, but if he's starting that low, maybe I'm way off in my perception of the true value."

It's cultural, americans raised around guns and the false sence of security perceived from having one.

Or the seller has had real or perceived negative experiences with real estate agents and prefers to work with/through someone who understands that "as-is" means as it is now with no room for grinding.My probate liquidity business flourished into what it has become because, in part, I recognized that part of the market doesn't want to, or know how to, deal with the mainstream of agents.

Or perhaps, there is a kernel of potential there as yet unrealized by your rational mind but perceived by your intuition.

Share the details here and we can do our best to guide you forward, but there is no replacement for having a trained eye live and in the flesh to help through what can seem like a complicated process.On the question regarding wholesalers not being perceived well, its because the barriers to entry are low, and there are a lot of people out there bringing non deals to market that should have never been.

I perceive this as a reluctance to go beyond your comfort zone and take action.

I guess I would worry that some good tenants would are not applying cause of the perceived hoops.