Sometimes investors get greedy and attempt to buy properties in questionable neighborhoods because the rent to purchase price ratio is better.

Be willing to work the deal with them and don't be greedy.

You can be a greedy, sleaze-ball and trick a certain demographic into buying a mobile home with empty promises of glory and wealth, and then hammering them with high cost later.

I can put half a million in my bank and our greedy government gets ZERO.

So you either have to do them yourself, pay retail trade rates which will kill your cash flow, or have a partial repair person that is fixing your small complex but also working other small jobs and complexes to make ends meat.You really want a size where you can afford that full time repair person that knows every inch of that property and how to fix things and where to get the parts.

And YES, this was public money used to bail out institutions and organizations that were just downright greedy.

One of little BP investors trying their first deals of course are under the radar .. but those that take it to another level well they can get hammered.. greed is an ugly thing in this business.

If he were reasonable--and, again, he is not--he would have agreed to submit my offer of a total commission of 4% (asking Greedy there to serve as facilitator), which he could keep all to his selfish little self. 

The seller just got greedy.

In 2007, a couple years after finishing college and beginning to earn money, I got greedy and jumped into buying a duplex to house-hack without doing proper due diligence.