We had an amazing amount of interest from the neighbors as the rehab was going on, and we actually ended up creating a bit of a neighborhood buzz as people got excited to have two brand new rehabs on their street.

Banks want 25% nowadays, so if I get SCB, why would the bank accept only 15%? 

BBB also does their due diligence and verify years in business and they list that information in company's profile so that is reliable source.Yelp - many people are using this nowadays and unhappy customers would be the first to go there and write a review.

I think it lets the neighborhood know what's going on and creates a buzz with neighbors.

I'm assuming it's due to the zero money down - they offer it nowadays ?

These clauses are contained, in all Promissory Notes nowadays.

Nowadays the electrics look so good that they are indistinguishable from gas for most. 

When I tried to invest first time out of state, the first thing that the turnkey operator tell me is to never never never bought broken house out of state we visit the broken property that's abandoned by investor.You need to factor in R&M in long term and my experience with turnkey is actually pretty good, there're surprises but it's managable.But nowadays I would rather spend and fix home in local market than out of state, fixing 20k plumbing issue in one mil house is considerable cheaper compare to fix 10k plumbing in 120k house. 

I know no one wants to give away their secret sauce, but I am just curious where agents are finding leads nowadays.

We landed at the airport late at night and the big buzz was that *almost* 2" of snow had fallen.