This is a simplified, exaggerated example, but I think shows why cashflow can't be the only thing you look at.

Of course, it should be noted that I’m not implying that it is healthy to remove every luxury from our lives, rather I just think it can be very eye opening when even a normal, middle class family closely examines what they spend each year on luxuries in comparison to the capital required for a real estate deal and for the vast majority of middle class families, their vehicles make up a significant chunk of excessive luxury that can be down sized – unfortunately, we often exaggerate those luxuries as necessities.

This is an exaggerated scenario with perfect numbers.

I just expelled myself from exaggerated return potentials /superb sob story /excellent marketing 3-day format of Fortune Builders.

They pound on the ceiling to get the tenants from upstairs to stop from essentially moving.I have listened to the noise you can hear it but I think that are exaggerating the situation but in fairness to them it’s annoying.Solution: Insulate the floor between units.Anyone ever had to do this before.  

Because they may exaggerate the amount of time/work it cost to repair those items, or maybe exaggerating that they are in disrepair at all, possibly making things up, etc. 

I challenge you, Say "I am getting nowhere with DMM cold calling and text messaging".You only hear from the people that 1 either get a deal doing it, 2) people that pretend to be successful exaggerating their success using these methods.So why not ALSO hear from the people that got NOWHERE using those strategies.Want to finally make wholesaling a successful reliable way to become successful for you and others?

The most obvious things I notice is a lot of Turnkey places offering inflated prices, which is fine, and I can respect that but really exaggerating on neighborhood quality.

I wonder...how much of the above is truth and how much is exaggeration or BS?

The tornado is a rather exaggerated example, but it was to make a point, so condier something as small as simply miscalculation of maintenance, which prior to buying is an educated guess.But, the NPV is inappropriate and for a small investor finding their opportunity costs to arrive at a cost of capital, I would say that if anyone accurately identified such figures after the facte they would be lucky....it's almost an impossibility as unforseen opportunities will never be known as opposed to other investments, like saying I could have invested in a bond.