The homes are older, but heavily remodeled so that the owners qualify for the government mandated manipulation of private property.

You have more leg room to manipulate the NOI and cap you produce and potentially control it's value.

Of course, the agent wants to get paid, so he's going to push for the deal that guarantees he gets his commission.As I said, I was an agent years ago, and one thing that always struck me when observing the actions of other agents was how much some of them would manipulate transactions and steer their clients to ensure that the agent got paid the most and/or the fastest, despite all the talk about fiduciary responsibility and treating the parties in a transaction ethically.

@James McCreary and I are gearing up to do a 4-plex or better yet a 5-10-plex deal together ideally in North Tempe/South Scottsdale area.

A reasonable legal fee will later look like a bargain, if you get sued, and some tenants are masters at manipulating the legal system.

Cameron Dunlap offers a funding service for which he manipulatively requires $1000 as a RETAINER and upon completion of your first funding, your $1000 would be knocked off from the 3/4 points charges....he also gives you access to his online iFlip course, Foreclosure University as a bonus (this is only online access and never dispatched - as it was in my case).

Same thing with the taxes, we are nearing the end of the year, you can manipulate the closing date to your benefit. 

I had a water leak on outdoor faucet when temps were below freezing and they had both the spiget and indoor valves repaired as well as a brand new softner put in all in the same day I called. 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but temp right now is 14 degrees, getting into single digits by morning.

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