I initially listed with VRBO/HA but didn't spend much time with them until I started seeing my Airbnb rates erode (8% over the past 4 years). 

I was house hacking and suggesting to others long before it was called house hacking. ha.   

HA!

It appears that everyone ha their go to website, no two people has suggested same company.  

I know when I was younger I wanted to do everything myself but once I had family and now as I get more mature (ha) and think about my time and valuing that even more. 

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I call him and ask him if he does not think a 90k fee's is a tad strong.. he hims and ha's blah blah balh.. and I tell him your just taking to much of the sellers money here I am going to pass.. ( he knows me as a very STRONG cash buyer)  well then it turns out the lady owed 210k against it so then they try to put it on the MLS for 270k  at that price its not a deal... long story short they come crawling back.. and I dictated what I thought was fair.. the lady got nothing it was a sale for what was owed and I gave them 5k for their trouble which is what this was worth to me...

I worked with Mary Patterson and have dealt with Dave in a few cases where we needed to think through a variety of structures and they ha e been fantastic to deal with.

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