Marketing has changed so dramatically in recent years and many legitimate business people, in absolute desperation, turn to all sorts of measures attempting to generate leads, hence new business.If you picked up on this up front and it bothered you (understandably) something inside of you override your instinctive mind, defying logic.As for your expectations, Jenni, paying for hard costs up front is customary.

Many wholesalers seem to miss this point and don't leave enough in the deal for it to still be worthwhile.Other issues sometimes include too many properties in war zones and dramatically underestimating expenses. 

Also fine by me.Rather dramatic answer to the question I suppose but that's the honest answer!

Phew, let see hereTaxes, when you purchase the property your tax assessment is going to go up (in Chicago they say pretty dramatically) so make sure you find out what the current property tax in your tax zone is, and apply that to the new purchase price.Move out costs can include but are not limited to such things as repainting, new carpet, toilet and sink repair, garbage disposal, trash out costs.

Therefore, market conditions dramatically affect what you can and can not demand or ask for.

I will make dramatically more money focusing on an area where I can find 10 really good deals but I only have 5 really strong investors to sell them to, versus being in an area where I can only find 1 really good deal but I have 100 really strong investors.

(insert dramatic music)Preston has been around for years.

I know rents have increased dramatically over the past two-three years but do not count on it continuing.

If you go about 8 blocks to the west, there's a dramatic transformation - it becomes indistinguishable from Braintree.  

What @Bram Spiero is alluding to is that if you had that  house leveraged to the hilt with little cash of your own in it your cash on cash return would be dramatically higher - but so would your debt.One other thing to consider is that right now you can sell that house and the profit from it would be tax free because of the sec 121 primary residence exclusion.