I know how serious I am and know what the property is worth and will close on it, but perception is everything.

A well-meaning and hard working agent can feel pressure from a homeowner or investor who has an inflated perception of the property's value, it’s a inexperienced or new agent, a part-time agent or under pressure from their broker to get listings or else.

Investing requires a dedicated life style change from what our society presently accepts as normal.

"If only everyone saw it like that" he said.That is a community working together to improve itself & get the trash of society where it belongs!

It ought to be free but I want to keep playing with it until its licked and then the public can have it.We all know that it doesn't exist on the open market today and people like Zillow and other so called real estate 2.0 sites are trying to get a handle on it.I don't know who else is working on it but here are the major stumbling blocks from my viewpoint.Psycho-social issueFirst and foremost it must be using rules acceptable to the society of appraisers and the needs of real estate professionals to have any application to these industries but I suspect that once it is proven to work people will use it and just forget about groups that claim a monopoly on information sets or analysis of any kind.

We live in a litigious society and people will sue even if you do everything right.

You will learn more in one week than in dozens of guru courses, and take home some useful tools to boot.To summarize, although possibly few, and far between (I blame society in general for this, not the RE profession!)

Obviously that had nothing to do with anything other than the perception that they could gets lots of money.

I wrote a blog that will help you. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9232/55313-intro-to-section-8---your-perceptions-vs-my-realities

Its true that no matter what I am doing to make a living, I want to give back to society and to the planet, and try to leave the world better for my efforts.