I'm also aggressively looking in the Central Florida area to acquire additional management contracts from other agencies, and was considering just gross management fees time 1-1.5x; but excluding leasing and other income that is not regular.

I had to learn how to guess how much value I could add to a property and base my guesses on facts.The journey was already hard because of the lack of experience and information at the start.

Houston is pretty rough to live in with the humidity, lack of nature, etc., but the economy is always resilient and sometimes thrives in downturns, so for that it'll always be a hub.

One of the main challenge that I observed is that individuals often lack a clear end goal or strategy, or they select a market that doesn't align it.

Good luck acquiring a wholesale deal if your contractor is lazy and lacks urgency.

This has placed me in a challenging position, as my competitors are not being held to the same standard due to lack of complaints against them. 

Hey Aaron - sounds like the sellers (likely due to age and lack of familiarity with owner financing) are probably not going to bend on the financing piece of this.

Regardless of lack of "significant" consideration.  

Prior to this I looked into a PM but felt overwhelmed by the differences in service, pricing, lack of clarity on what I should be looking for and requiring...

Getting started I tried EVERYTHING (str, ltr, wholesale, flip, agent, etc. etc.) to be honest none of them went super well because I lacked focus.