For clients who look at doing laminate, it almost never makes sense since the labor costs they are quoted to install end up eating up the savings. 

If your going to buy in Texas around the DFW area reach out to another great agent I have worked with over the years who seems to always find my clients hot pockets listings - @Lucia Rushton Yes, Pensecola looks like a pretty interesting part of Florida in terms of cap rates.

Also, Business Insider published a nice article last week that shows the Flock process from the perspective of a client.

@Errol Graham, like I mentioned above, we love QBO for our REI clients.

HH properties (and often HH clients) are high resource utilization accounts for a PMC, so many PMCs won't take them on, or will only take them on with the understanding that the property will be converted to a single-lease property (we do still use this approach.) 

I have clients that invest both ways what it really comes down to is your situation and goals. 

The numbers you find in the news are usually for all properties combined, which tells you very little value.In 2005, we selected a specific tenant segment that has proved to be a highly reliable source of income for our clients.

I have my attorney make all of my LLCs and all of my clients that invest OOS. 

There are flippers here in Los Angeles I actually steer my clients away from certain flippers because I know the quality of work they do and I have a duty to disclose.

None of my clients do the "co-GP", its a very thin facade...light on substance usually will land both parties under federal trouble...