I was panicking thinking I wouldn’t live long enough to enjoy the fruits.    

Everyone knows a lot of the low hanging fruit is not so easy to find anymore, but I see on Redfin that people have closed deals that never showed up on the MLS. 

And with speed queen machines you shouldn't have much maintenance. 

The low hanging fruit deals with light rehab and low margins are for the weak ;) Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

A big tool, like a cobbler's sewing machine, would have to be depreciated over multiple years.

IMO, the frugal would likely much prefer to grow their own fruits and vegetables, shop for raw quality ingredients, and invest a bit more time and money in their food in the short term to cook their own meals with quality ingredients in order to achieve the long term benefits of eating more healthy, while still saving money over going out to eat.

Computer models also benefit from lots of tuning, machine learning, and if the company is good some really expert tweaks to take into account things newer folks would miss.Doing it manually is great because a person can sometimes easily see something that the computer model misses, and can take into account other things - conversations with owners, etc - that the computer model simply can't.Generally I find the computer models do better on cookie cutter deals, and people do better on unusual deals.

I down loaded from my iPhone App Store the app Deal Machine.

So anyway, unless you are smarter than me, that kind of thing can happen... that's the reason there is no perpetual motion machine and no free electrical device you can build in your garage.

Based on the number of investors we know, and the market we have seen for HUD properties in Florida, we set up a "bidding machine" for investors that specifically targets HUD properties.We send weekly spreadsheets of "regions" grouped by counties.We have customized spreadsheets for each investor that tracks progress.We treat this as an actual business silo that our investor clients love, because all the heavy lifting is done.As a Real Estate Brokerage you need to:Define an opportunityDifferentiate yourself from every other competitor out thereMake it simple for your clients to do business with youShare their pain AND their joyDo whatever you can to continue to make your relationship a win/win environmentToday was an example of this strategy as we won three homes for three separate investors, and all of them are thrilled.