He's also requesting 5 more gallons of ceiling paint than I would normally use on a house this size.

@Andrea Evans - Chicago is truly block by block, yet also has a population the size of Boston, Denver, Milwaukee and Nashville combined.

Often times they're completely closed to retail investors unless someone is okay with $2M check sizes per a deal.Are there any broker-dealer groups that you like and have you gone this path before as a LP?

(Urban, suburbs, rural) What population sizes and growth rates?

STRs are saturated at smaller sizes but heavily themed 6+ bed properties can still be great properties in that Disney Area.

I'm not sure you will find a 3PM service that will also want to do UHaul with a facility this size, you may have to drop UHaul and get remote 3PM.

Land in the area and similar size has recently sold for 5k/acre. 

500 is a pretty small sample size so maybe it was just a bad list/bad luck.

Faking a foreclosure would require thousands of dollars in fees, months (if not years) of time, an incredible degree of knowledge of state and national foreclosure rules and procedures and balls the size of a house to expose one's self to the prosecution that would more than likely result from the fraudulent action.

Its definitely this - one of the few tougher states to go through all the hoops for - most national lenders carve it out since the thought is the size of the market (small) doesn't justify the expense/effort