sounds like your off and running and doing all sorts of different deals.. 

Also, the seller not offering any sort of commission either.

Investors see headlines in the WSJ or Bloomberg talking about syndications loosing money and investors having significant parts of their retirements wiped out and more news that most of the short term debts mentioned above are expiring end of this year and early next, making it seem like the worst has not yet come.3.

Paying a Contr to do everything sucks up a lot of $$...Personally I would buy the worst house in a run-down area of a nice city that is getting ready to gentrify.

It'll be like the airline industry sort of. 

If it's a transactional relationship, then worst case scenario, you don't work with that person again in the future.

And, considering buyer up-front fee of some sort or kind.

You mentioned a couple times that you had "feelings" of some sort about these people- reacting to your feelings when screening tenants is a good way to get caught up in a fair housing case.

The worst market are the ones that have properties you do not want to hold long term.We see questions like yours all the time.  

Best/worst markets?