I was just in the hospital with complications with my pregnancy, and am pretty overwhelmed with dealing with that.

Still sizable, but the power of the strategy will decrease.

if it truly is as powerful as you imagine, wouldn't the Brandon Turners of the world all own policies like this? 

This will increase the return above what can be obtained on a passive investment.The flipside of having the power to control everything is that it can be alot of work (and a full-time job if a person is putting in sweat equity).

Before the settlement and after this settlement, buyers always had the option to approach the listing agent directly with an offer, a power they've held all along.

Buyer's have all the power now.

@Andy Oshodi the REI business is hard but house hacking is one of the easiest most powerful strategies out there.

The builder is just leveraged to the point that he cannot afford to turn his n the power and he needs to liquidate the property.  

In short, this market has a huge barrier of entry and it is capital or very strong borrowing power and usually both.There are lenders who will lend to a no exp investor, but not some 500k Long Island property that needs 200k in work and will resell for 1.2 Million. 

We want the to be able to have more buying power later this year as well so we don’t want to jeopardize the debt to income ratio of both of the  partner?