The problems, as it was explained to me when I researched the flat-fee guys when I sold my own home in MD by owner, is that 1) sometimes they don't even list in the correct MLS for your area, so make sure they do before paying anything, and 2) when agents see "contact owner for showing," or doesn't have the correct style lock-box, that can limit agents showing your home as they'd rather not deal directly with the owner or feel they'll be directing both sides of the sale without a listing agent involved.    

White, grey, it's all in style and makes a huge difference for cheap cost.

Hi @Jeff B. ... with your background you've probably heard that a user can override the CSS style sheets in Firefox and probably in other browsers.https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/how-to-override-css-stylesheets-in-firefox/If someone were wanting to constantly print from a particular website it might be worth the effort to set up their own user css sheet.

This type of Investing (real estate investing) is really about your style of investing.

There are opportunities to add value in rehab properties in areas where move in ready, modern style properties are hard to come by, catch up on deferred maintenance, or chip in with a few investors to do larger deals, or diversify into other markets, or asset classes. 

Louis) and went from 0 to owning $20-25 million (without any partners) worth of real estate by employing my value-add strategy for garden-style multifamily properties. 

With your credit, specifically Fannie/Freddie.For your commercial, portfolio, hard money, generally speaking, these are going to be higher rate, shorter term, typically balloon in style, so that you have to redo the mortgage every so often.

(not sure if that is a FL appeal or not)It's hard to see but maybe replace the chain link fence/gate with some white style fencing?

Common pitfalls are poor underwriting, poor risk assessment, being over zealous, sacrificing prudent lending practice to gain an edge on competitors, no take-out for you loans, lack of available capital, over-promising borrowers and not delivering, improper loan documents or the absence of material docs. 

Amenities, location, style, condition, lot size, neighboring homes, etc all play a role in the ARV.I tend to disagree with some of the comments above as I do not believe them all to be accurate, however, the important thing here is to learn how to properly evaluate a property's current and after repair value and there are many factors involved in this process, not just bed/bath and square footage.