There are plenty of investors who are in a financially strong position to self-insure their properties completely, take on much larger deductibles, or eliminate certain coverages from their policy in an effort to drive down their insurance costs. 

@Jerry WesthoffSome of the larger hard money lenders may be able to fund this for you, if not a private / smaller hard money lender probably would look at it if the arv made senseI would start with larger companies

how about locations near energy corridor and woodlands?

I wouldn't put so much work into convincing them their bid is too high, put that energy into finding a better management firm.   

Just depends if the site wants to cater to the true fan or to a larger audience (and both are viable models). 

The average listed price per square foot in our market trending for new construction by larger tract home builders is $130-$140 per square foot.

If not, you are wasting a ton of time and energy driving back and forth. 

We sent them to our larger clients.

Certainly as with seller concessions, brokers can note the relevant details of the transaction, but presumedly an exponentially larger percentage of transactions will no longer include these costs or be publicly recorded..

Also an agent closing multiple deals has a lot more exposure than one that is not, hence how they will have a larger database of buyers.