For me, it was not as much a choice as a necessity. 

Being an agent while investing can certainly save you some money, but it is not a necessity and shouldn't be looked at as a barrier to entry.

Between that trip and our tiny house, I definitely look at space differently.My husband is a manufacturing/process engineer so making the house flow was a necessity for him.

At least for me...I think it comes out of necessity or opportunity. 

If we didn't give them direction, or if they disagreed with the necessity of the repair (or they deemed it an "emergency"), they contracted for the repairs anyway and charged us accordingly.

They were fairly easy to learn all the due diligence necessities.

So my offer would, out of necessity, be with them providing 100% seller financing.

It's a smaller investor pool out of necessity that buys the C to D stuff.Multifamily class AI have a client that is a family office.

257, 259 and 261 Wilbur ray ave long branch NJ, it gets better, the town eminent domained the the 3 properties, initial numbers were 257 $120,000, 259, $140,000, 261 (empty lot $40,000, total thus far $300,000 then I offered a attorney friend of mine 50% to up the offer,  I paid $5,000 for a MAI appraiser (to match the credentials of the city's appraiser, attorney's necessity) and he upped the offer by $80,000 that we split making the total $ 335,000 net. 

Fix the necessities (and maybe the easy stuff) and decline to repair the insignificant items that are more costly.