Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

I once bought a house that had been on the MLS for over a year.

A recent study showed that 80 people are moving to this city every single week, which will continue to increase housing demand. 

In fact, I’d like to turn the primary into a rental and then house hack in a multi-unit.

There is an abnormally low amount of new construction occurring on the coast in comparison to the demand and the existing inventory can be quite dated, especially for those coming from areas like California.

It's questions like these that make me glad that this site/forum exists.

You search for existing guides, select the best and provide the link or the document to your clients.

This is literally the entire reason these companies exists - to get this stuff right.As for why, I have no idea why there has been an uptick.

Letting your contractors (specifically if you have a GC) what the budget is and that the must notify you if a change order exists (versus they tell you after the work is completed). 

On the complete team thing. yes it does exist BUT it's VERY rare.