Contractors, unless you have a working relationship with them, normally do not want you bouncing ideas off them.Understand what their hourly rate is, have a discussion with them that you are okay with paying them an hourly rate if they walk the property with you and provide you a scope of work along with an explanation of what you can/can't get away with in regards to improvements.ask them if you go with them, if they can credit you the amount that you paid.Once you develop a working relationship with a few contractors, you can bounce ideas off them and expect quality responses.I do not invest in New York.Best of luck. 

Core CPI levels came in this week a touch higher than expected: 1 month: 3.8%, 3 months: 3.7%, 6 months: 2.9%, and 12 months: 3.3%.

So on a 3br unit where all the utilitites are included in the rent aand paiid by the landlord, you can expect to get up to the FMR as the rent for your unit. 

I do not expect to meet more than 25 people in my entire life and career here on BiggerPockets who will make $400K in wholesaling fees.

The team members I've worked with are super nice, but I have to ask, are there significantly better turn key provider deals to be had with a little more patience/perhaps better expectations set from me?

Nothing worse than walking up the front of the house and having a broken up concrete walkway.

After pointing this out, I would have expected the cost to be eaten by them.

What value is expected or provided by an agent who specializes in multi-family residential, not commercial. 1-4 units.

The next several years are expected to be in a normal range of appreciation between 3.5 to 5%.

The money partner on these deals will bring in about $35,000 to $50,000 for each deal and the expected IRR is around 25%-35% each year for the 3 year period essentially doubling their money in 3-4 years.So rather than focusing on picking up a couple of coaching clients this year, I think I am just going to focus on finding money partners to buy deals with.