When you buy at the courthouse step, like you did for your foreclosure purchase, the sale is a foreced sale and is not based on a "typical buyer" sale and is not without "undue pressure or influence".

If one considers your response that you must be thick skinned and its necessary to have "ego" then will that influence others that you can't buy and sell houses without feeding and growing ego?

What/who influenced you to get in the wholesaling business?

Maybe you have an increasing role and influence in the adoption arena - maybe that’s your why.

I'm not clear on how the fact that this is a two family influences those numbers.  

Your analysis should really be independent of the influence a sales price may have.

My experience as an aviation officer in the US army has given me the skills to, manage, problem solve, influence, coordinate and make on the spot decisions.

I'm not on here as often lately and my influence is dropping like a rock,tic!!

Being in a position to provide advice or consultation must come from a blend of these functions, an averaging result of specific and general education, success in the real world, experience gained over the years in being exposed to many aspects relating to the subject as well as a command of other specialities that influence the subject matter.

Don't like the environmental laws, rather than protest, go to work where they have influence.