Their rents gets hit and here is the distinction between the average BP'er and Grant Cardone; he can weather the 8-12 month storm and/or reposition his assets with cash reserves, lines of credit, pooling cash flow ect.

There are already statutes and regulations regarding fraud and deception in real estate transactions.Educating people who want to be educated is fine, but if a governing body restricts the pool of ready and willing buyers, more properties will go to foreclosure and sit on the market longer.Real estate investors perform a vital function in every jurisdiction: putting properties back on the market, in good condition.Many of the properties they buy could never pass conventional lender's inspection because they typically require tens of thousands of dollars in repairs that most homeowners do not have or cannot do themselves.Additionally, many real estate investors near metropolitan centers can access almost an unlimited pool of funding to buy and remodel properties if the numbers work.From contract to close, the time can be in as little as 3-4 business days.The delay is mostly waiting on title companies.So when flippers mail letters and post cards to owners saying they can "close quick" and "all cash", that is a fact, not fraud.Of course, realtors will recommend you list your property – that's how they make money – so they are self-interested, which makes the report biased.Maybe next time you can have a "flipper" on you show for balanced reporting.The idea of anyone feeling "pressured" by getting a post card or flyer is ludicrous.If the homeowner doesn't want to sell, the solution is to throw them away.But the idea of "there ought to be a law" is equally ludicrous.If there are bad actors committing fraud, the answer is to enforce the laws already on the books.Out of all the properties posted for sale every 1st Tuesday of the month at the trustee's sale, a very large percentage never make it because they are bought by the very flippers you disparaged.If not for the real estate investing community, cities around the country would look much, much worse.My biggest complaint with your report is that you completely failed to get the rest of the story.Your editor needs address this."

I would be able to pull roughly $10-12k in cash that I will then be able to pool with my other funds and purchase an investment property.

Here is the quick pros and cons on both.Gloucester: Pros -  Good tenant pool, strong schools, most houses have public utilities, consider the more desirable area of Sicklerville by the local populationCons - higher taxes, pulling permits takes the full ~21 days, higher home prices, overall thinner marginsWinslow:Pros - Lower cost houses, rental friendly township, strong demand for rentals, slowly up & coming in certain neighborhoods, lower taxes, overall fatter marginsCons - Lots of C and D neighborhoods and lackluster tenant pools, poor schools, the more east you get the more well/oil/septic you find, considered less desirable area of Sicklerville by the local populationBy the numbers both GC and WT have similar rent rolls only off by $100 to $200 depending on the house type, therefore Winslow you will net more but have a slightly riskier houseAgain this is just a general view, you'll want to look at each sub-division as there are massive swings within each twp (Ex: Brittany Woods compared to Cobblestone in GC)

It is more efficient to have a few open at the same time if they have the same applicant pool, but even if you try to get them the same, they are going to start to naturally stagger as people leave before the lease is up. 

I see a house in my city that appears to be abandoned, the doors and windows have been shut up with steel panels for months and the pool has been boarded up as well. 

We have stumbled into a few leases but relative to rentals, they're more trouble than they're worth in the city, too many people in the pool, literally. 

She'd turn on the propane burner, and it didn't light, and fill the house with propane, or go for a walk outside, and there was a pond and built in pool (she couldnt' see well due to diabetes) When that started I put her in a senior living home 2 blocks away so I could pick her up and bring her over for the day, etc. 

Maybe a pool vs no pool, etc. 

We deal with multiple sub contractors form our Main Sub, to HVAC to pool installers, electrical, etc.