That will give you at the very least a taste of what you're getting in to should you choose the commercial brokerage route.

Or here we have a post and beam company that does something Similar all the time and probably has designs you modify to taste. 

They don't realize mold is what was growing on the block of cheese in their refrigerator; that mold is what makes bleu cheese look and taste the way it does; or, that we have antibiotics now because of bread mold.  

I have invested with fundrise too when I wasn’t aware of other crowdfunding platforms but returns are so minimal that I am glad I was just tasting out waters and didn’t go overboard.

I think it's rather presumptuous to psychoanalyze people just because their tastes happen to differ from yours.My Dad (may he rest in peace) loved fixing things.

Is it in poor taste if we lower our price to just below their asking, on the morning of the open house?

Yet, the risk have to be weighed and buying a “value-add” property at a 3% cap puts a bad taste in my mouth.

In both cases the buyers had modifications we were able to include for them that made it more to their taste and didn't impact us.No real estate agents needed. 

I ended up looking around other opportunities in Cinci, I have a great team there that's helping me, its hard to move away.I also talked yesterday with an all in house property manager company called Home River group from Chicago, but I had a pretty bad taste in my mouth after the meeting and also seen the yelp reviews...

Now, that doesn't mean they had good taste, just that they made an attempt and hopefully some good came out of it.