I guess I could have an owner finance Yes,No,Possible boxes and select one.I can see more with duplex's,tri's,and quads doing more owner finance etc.In the bigger complexes you have professional buyers that can bring a bunch of cash to the table and give guarantees etc.I guess the short answer is I have to vet the buyer before bringing a scenario like that in front of a seller.If I don't the seller will look at you like you wasted their time and you have just lost all credibility.I do agree that numbers put out there are rosy sometimes but that is the sellers doing.They often massage the numbers some without the broker knowing hoping to get a newbie or less experienced who will pay top dollar and cash them out.You know sometimes that does happen so the seller wants to take the chance.They can always go down in price later on.

At any point I can create an "accountant's copy" of my QB, send it to my CPA via email, he can massage anything that looks out of sorts, send the changed copy back to me by email, and then I can get those changes into my QB.In Quickbooks, I generate my Jan 1 reports to see who gets sent a 1099 (I pick up 1099 blank forms at the local IRS office and write out the 1099 by hand).Newer versions of Quickbooks seem to support lots more than what I am doing too.

On the other hand, "GREAT DEALS" are created by knowledable real estate entrepreneurs by massaging the elements of the deal.

I think election year is propping things up and er... massaging data.

Bill Gulley , if you just make 1 addition to your list....If you include a masseuse for daily full body massages, you have a deal!

When they show ...have everything ready ....massage shoulder some abit of pain face Roof gets done free

I am a massage therapist and I do a little bit of graphic design on the side (not much though)I know real estate has been hot here for quite awhile and I got interested in it almost a decade ago, but life happened and I forgot about it.

Sort of like giving another guys girlfriend a foot massage - Pulp Fictlon

And without any verifiable numbers, it doesn't appear they can be massaged enough to make sense. 

Ingredients aren’t the only thing that makes the bread, sometimes it’s the way you massage the dough.