-wholesaling is very time and labor intensive.

Regardless of the city, real estate is intensely local.

An older building and more management intensive tenants dictates needing a full time PM and a repair person to keep it operating.What you can bake into the numbers for a full time repair person varies on the rents per door collected.Typically you need about 75 units or more for this but for example 1,000 rents per month at 40 doors is equivalent in gross income to 80 doors at 500 a month rent.

This sounds like a nightmare.Rooming houses are hugely management intensive.

. ;-)Pre duplex, I went through intense despair as I hunted for an SFR.

However, that is more management intensive. 

Tile is labor intensive.

They require less intensive management than apartments and from my experience tend to be a little less risky when it comes to vacancy than office/industrial.

one thing i definitely agree with the both of you on is that you don't want to lose your credibility, i have never had any intensions on getting over on the seller, i was just trying to figure out how to get around this hurdle before i even experience it. see i would hate to lose a deal on something as crazy as not having the initial earnest money deposit, especially if it's a great deal and you know you could get bank funding and etc to make it work.now i used to wholesale/flip SFH, so i do know of a couple of ways of getting around putting up earnest money deposits, but thats done with the individual home owners, and most of the time commercial property transactions are done through savvy attorneys and i didn't know if any of those old SFH tactics would work in this arena

Blown-in insulation is labor-intensive but easy to do.