I can easily get to that amount on a 3 day project.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

Most MTRs in my area include utilities, but my California property has very high utility costs (PG&E - could easily be $1000/month with regular AC/heat use).

You could put in a range of numbers for purchase price and closing costs, renovation expenses, and expected returns and you could very quickly get a range of projected return on investments (although an excel spreadsheet could easily do this as well), but I'm sure as technology develops we will see even more sophistication in AI's ability to assist in deal analyzing.

The CFPB made it very clear recently that all of the same consumer protections apply to them: CFPB Takes Action to Stop Contract-for-Deed Investors from Setting Borrowers Up to Fail There are very few if any places these days where you're just going to easily toss a borrower out with a land contract.

Primary Homes - most banks will easily do 80% of the value of your home, some will go up to 89.9% loan to value (LTV). 

@Julie Doke: Industry specific software speaks to you and you can easily relate it to your day to day process.

But then because they have established such credibility, they can easily buy now with great rate and terms from lenders because they have the track history. 

Ideally they did not pay over retail because if they did they could easily lose the money they put into the property if the loan gets called.  

You can easily wire a second thermostat in parallel to the one the tenant uses and have it preset to a floor temperature.