Jackie Lange has strongly been influenced by Jack Miller.

Personally, I'd prefer to option the property.Due to the extended time period and changing circumstances (and the input from others' influence) there are too many reasons tgat may cause a seller to either not perform or to rationalize bouncing out of escrow. 

Make sure they are motivated.Buyers - Find Wholesale, Retail, Owner Finance BuyersFinancing - Traditional, HML, Private IRA Lender, JV Cash Partner.COI - Center of Influence - People that can refer you sellers and buyers and lenders. 

What real estate book or course has influenced your thinking the most?

then lets talk about some direct mail marketing to centers of influence. 

Banks can't influence an appraiser anymore than you can now with tight regulations.

Based on some research on previous threads here on BP There is a disclosure that's signed by the buyer at close, Document 92900 B- "Penalties for Loan Fraud: Federal laws provide severe penalties for fraud, misrepresentation, or conspiracy to influence wrongly the issuance of mortgage insurance by HUD.

@Brandon S.Sure, the median price in Irvine today is $850k.Here are the historical Irvine prices, courtesy James Park in Atlanta, using Irvine as an example for Asian market influences.

Now of course, you have different classes of apartments in different locations which have an influence on the type of good it would be considered (ie college apartments, blue collar/working class, upscale, etc) Normal goods in my book to name a few would be retail centers (which typically take huge hits with economic downturns, especially without large anchor tenants), smaller or single tenant office properties, and warehouse/industrial properties (with highly leveraged tenants with tight margins running on leveraged A/R and inventory). 

Whether you consider this might be influenced on how much profit you are looking at.