Someone that I know recently got out a contract because a clever lawyer saw that the lead paint addendum wasn't included.

They can go straight to the trash.While these guys may think they are being clever or smart investor types, they are really being pretty unaware they are making things harder on themselves.

The price is higher, but the cleaning fee and bed taxes are also so much higher, expenses, supplies, linens, etc.

Then, they get you to a 3-day "seminar" which is nothing more than a very cleverly written sales script aka infomercial.  

I'm sure there are some clever tricks the pros know, but it might be effective to simply brute force call/mail every possible property that you'd want to buy if it was for sale and see if you eventually get one to sell.

If so, this group expects pretty high levels of professionalism and are not impressed with clever, fast-talking real estate investor types, however they will often respond well to a licensed broker/associate who treats them as they would attorneys or any other member of the legal community.

Linens and utensils come from Wal Mart. 

My housekeeper washes all the linens and makes all the beds.

I hope my subject line was clever enough.

Cleverly  marketed.