Short Sales, Bank Owned, $/sqft, school district, days on market, etc.  

They either list owner-occuiped houses for sale or know they can show a normal buyer 5-10 houses for a sale.- It's not profitable for them to search for under-market priced houses, figure out repairs needed or what other problem is pushing the price down and do even more for a newbie investor that has analysis-paralysis and may never buy anything.Some questions you'll want to share the answers to with any agent you choose:1) Are you paying cash or getting a mortgage?

Make sure the buyer will go through with the sale before you worry about the timing.

we have to have pre sales my bank will only give me a certain amount of spec loans but unlimited amount of pre sales. its the only way to keep velocity when you have a larger project like us ( 90 homes) We have been blessed no questions about it.. we made some critical decisions when we started that now look like genius moves :)

Since you can't control the sale price, you basically have a $4k cushion to your reno costs, or otherwise you lose money compared to the as-is scenario.

I've had business and conducted hundreds of sales transactions and find it very underhanded.

You will get plenty of that at your office sales meetings, office training, CE training, board and association training.   

These props were in good areas so I am guessing that is why. keep in mind true A class areas whould see majority of comps being sales to homeowners NOT investors.. homeowners dont care what the cash flow is or the potential rental income is only investors do..

The reason is the rent-to-price ratio is good so you can cash flow, and most of the West side doesn’t have a Point of sale inspection which is really annoying.

Ensure that the mortgage is assumable, and confirm that there are no due-on-sale clauses that could trigger the full loan balance.