The team/agent community is highly competitive and if they were lying there would literally be hundreds of complaints from other teams to the real estate commission from these.Also the top teams are typically listed by a number of different reporting agencies such as realtrends, the wall Street journal etc.

The market here is competitive but there are plenty of renters and I think betting on long term appreciation of prices in residential is a safe bet.

Everybody goes on about how tight and competitive Memphis is but there are deals everywhere.

Whether or not they move will tell you how competitive your market is and whether or not that particular tenant could/would afford the higher rate. 

If your market is slower and not much competition, try the lending route.

I'm in a fairly competitive market, so I usually call up the listing agent or seller 24-48 hours prior and let them know that my client will be submitting an offer. 

That keeps me competitive with institutional lenders for the type of tenant/buyers I'm working with.

Another factor in this market is the competition for this size deal.

Also just for the record in Oregon it is NOT illegal to wholesale a house all you are doing is assigning the contract over to someone and your fee is an assignment fee, you are technically only selling the contract most realtors will tell you it's illegal its not they are not aware of the the differences or they will see you as competition .

They're based out of L.A. but they finance deals all over the country at competitive rates.