People confuse opinions with fact, and that is dangerous.If an agent makes a mistake and gives you thw wrong number, it is your *** that goes bankrupt in the end of the day.I see so many REI influencers talk about find out what you are good at and resource out what you are bad at.Or the "not how but who" mentality.

It is not them that make the offer or has any influence on the offer.

Cold calling and networking works best  The problem with YouTube University is that every gaaahhdamn clown is a self proclaimed expert.Case in point: The biggest influencers... do you know what they do?

Sounds like the start of every Instagram influencers sales pitch.

If you're in an area with low availability of rehab lenders, then your options become limited, and you might want to really beat the bushes for a private lender in your circle of influence (that's always a good idea regardless).There are lots of hours involved in executing a rehab from searching for the candidate property to getting the check at the end.

but at some point you have to decide if a particular property is a good deal or not and that in large part can be influenced by the amount of repair costs.

If the hotel says checkout time is 11am and client refuses to leave or appears to be under the influence of something, giving them some sort of grief, they may be inviting a the use of force. 

You cannot influence your taxes by playing with your cash flow.

RE investors should ask the agent your working with up front if they know if their will be seasoning issues or affidavits involved as you may not get your EMD returned.Also if there are no lender requirements how can a lender influence/tell you what you can & cannot do with your purchase?

Getting Cash Buyers and owner financing Buyers is not that hard.Without private lender money and joint venture money you really can't do real estateGoogle "TRUST.ETC private lender concept"Buy the book by Patrick Rice on Amazon called "iRA Wealth"Center of influence marketing works well, I hand that book  to CPAs and financial plannersYou can use that book to create a PowerPoint presentationBe careful of SEC rules on marketing a securityOne my favorite sayings is, "don't diversify your investments and Wall Street, diversify by having some money in Wall Street and some money in Main Street, do you want something crazy issue in China or the price of oil to drop your mutual funds by 20%?