I've included an example below to help illustrate this.

Below is an illustration of the traditional loan process: choose a lender, receive pre-approval, and close with that same lender.Today, you still get pre-approval, which we used to make offers.

Until I went looking for data to help me illustrate my point, I did not realize that gentrification has already hit this neighborhood like a cudgel.

Caleb,My opinion is that some people have the ability to easily start a conversation with someone over the phone and have a (silver tongue) tact to but them at ease to allow for an open discussion.Others (myself) have the ability through body language, documentation, and resources (buyers) to illustrate to someone how I can help them and put them at ease for an open discussion.So you should know if you are best negotiating over the phone or by meeting in person with someone who needs you help and sell your plan to solve their problem through a painful time.

This graph is a good illustration of that.

It illustrates the difficulty that asset managers and decision makers at banks face when they're trying to liquidate a couple of hundred assets, each with its own market which requires a different course of action to maximize profits, decrease holding times, or whatever goals are most important.

So I gave a basic example that illustrated that.

So much so that when reality is put back on the table the newbie looks at reality and some of the practical applications in illustration of the proper real idea or the converse of showing why a guru voodoo idea doesn't work that reality becomes almost fiction.

Details are beyond this post, but to illustrate this requirement, hours spent watching BiggerPockets podcasts do not count7. 

I raised this issue to them, and they responded quickly apologizing for the mistake and assuring me they would credit me the difference in the next draw.While the response times have been prompt and the resolutions satisfactory, the issues I've run into with RPM are illustrating the downsides of using large property management companies.