A sophisticated operation doesn't require the agent to have personal connections to any of the customers.

Zillow - love ‘em or hate ‘em - are sitting on mountains of data with sophisticated algorithms.

Some of my colleagues have fairly sophisticated ways of ranking markets (e.g. scraping data from Census bureau website, etc.).I'm focussing on single family homes at this point.

Combine that with the four hurricanes that slammed central Florida and I wasn't sophisticated enough to know what to do next.

There are a lot of laws to protect multi family tenants because of the special nature of housing, whereas a commercial tenant is going to be deemed to be sophisticated and be able to hire experts to negotiate a lease so they are often not granted the same protections.Most states let the terms of the lease in a commercial or office space govern so you probably want to check with your attorney on any lease provisions to let them cancel your lease 

Some people think that return of capital before or right after pref favors the investor but I disagree (and so do most very sophisticated investors that I’ve talked to about it).  

For the most part, Seller Financing has worked for us when the Seller is somewhat sophisticated themselves and/or willing to hold paper in the first place. 

'Sophisticated' strategies and one of the downsides nobody seems to talk about.With LLC assets less than $1M per, LLC returns and k-1s are cake. 

With that said I did join a program to educate myself so that I can qualify as a sophisticated investor and meet people and establish a pre existing relationship.

Most sellers are sophisticated enough to look for solutions online (PPC/SEO) or respond to direct mail and cold calls.