Wow, talk about "bait and switch", I came here looking for a good fight!

RodneyI do a lot of HML to fellow investors that have sat down with me with a business plan (sometimes on a napkin) & the capability to do the work.

From RealPage 10-K page 14, they say "The principal competitive factors in our industry include total cost of ownership, level of integration with property management systems, ease of implementation, product functionality and scope, performance, security, scalability and reliability of service, brand and reputation, sales and marketing capabilities and financial resources of the provider.

Anything with meat has all the dogs fighting.

Short sale agents are doing a lot of advertising these days, and they work on volume, so they'll fight over your leads.

When we were getting our start we talked to several VPs of commercial lending, and having actual numbers when presenting our business plan to them was helpful in showing them that we had done our due diligence and were capable of conducting proper analysis.

I had one idiot who wanted to fight me saying he was entitled to get a loan, .....right, that'sthe guy I'm going to work out collections with....I always said we make common sence loans, that while I look at all aspects of lending, one or two issues may not keep us from making a loan.

He was already very rich from investing before he was capable to do that.I personally see the expected returns of the two investments comparable.

Make sure they have a good track record and you have the capability to follow through on their advice.

Let them see that I am more than capable of buying their property.