If you’re in a hurry to find a deal fast then you might be going at it with too much desperation that a seller can feel and get nervous about.P.S I am a direct buyer or not a Whole Seller.

What are you looking to achieve, to change, etc.

I also have talked with this company but I feel they are not telling me the whole story, makes me leery of this business.

Your town may have just undergone a comprehensive reevaluation which adjusts the property values of the whole town.

If you can't trust anyone in Portland, then that's a whole issue... 

That could be achieved without spending an inordinate additional amount in cap ex; In fact all I have seen had these items in common1.

Maybe they've been burned by landlords in the past and are being very careful.You can legally reject them based on personality, facial tattoos, body odor, or other factors, but you better make sure you can prove that it wasn't based on any protected class like race, religion, familial status, etc.

Then I thought about AirBnB on the US side and started analyzing the whole area in terms of real estate and STR and following threads.- Someone talked about crime and hard tenants (who don't pay - usually inherited ones)- not many economic opportunities to attract pool of people and boost area etcI'm looking at houses on both sides (Canada and USA) US, they are cheaper like 731 Pine Ave, Niagara FAlls NY 14301 going for $270,000 (5/2, 2700sq ft) but on Can side, it's like houses are in the US$400K - smaller sq ft.

Even promised ROI seems difficult to achieve.

It seems like there's some confusion between the asset protection one would want to achieve by ensuring that personal and business funds are never commingled vs. the BMP of separating deposits to ensure they are available to the tenant when due.