Some of those pitfalls would be potentially not seeing the home before you lock it under contract / losing out on deals because some other local investor can be more agile, inability to act quick due to lack of boots on the ground for whatever could come up (i.e. needing pictures but there is a uncooperative tenant, it's an absentee and the owner lives far away and inspection becomes more difficult to set up, etc.), convincing sellers to consider offers from an out-of-state investor (imagine good rapport should do the trick) - that type of thing. 

The future returns on these policies are premised on the idea that index options can (at least in the current product iterations) achieve long term net profits of between 30% and 50%, forever.

The MAPS programs on the whole, and especially the current and previous iterations, have embodied some of what I look for in long-term investment markets -- governments making decisions that will positively impact values in 15-30 years.As far as Edmond, Norman, and the rest of the metro -- there's plenty of value to be found all around, and certainly in both of these suburbs. 

So, we'll have to give the first draft of the plans to the lumber company, let them do "take offs" (figure out exactly how much we need of every piece of lumber and material), and ultimately let them recommend the most cost-efficient method to design and build the structure.Supposedly, the big lumber companies all have in-house engineering, so I guess the architect and the engineer will iterate on the drawings until we have the layout we want with the most cost-efficient design.We expect to have our first draft of the drawings in the next 10 days.

It’s an interactive and iterative process and involves ongoing discussions around investing goals, assumptions, constraints, specific property plans, schedules and budgets, funding strategy, exit strategy, metrics, market dynamics, key team members, risk management, deadlines, issues, etc.

A unique script has to be written, for each county, to iterate through ALL of the accounts, and compiling the data in a database, which can then be queried for accounts which match your criteria.Iterating through all of the accounts requires exploiting the county's online property tax search.   

Fourandhalf a bit more agile as a company as Rentpath has been established for years.  

It's something we take very serious and I wanted to re-iterate that point.

Also, I re-iterated that they need to call me and that the lease says to call me because of a situations like this when I'm not at work.At the very least, it nipped it in the bud where they won't be making any future repairs without first contacting me. 

I'm not sure I'd call our energy sector agile, but we're not mired in the tar sands either.