I discarded the LLC because it is more complicated (to file, maintain and report taxes) and expensive and apparently does not provide as much legal protection as you might hope.

Plus knowing I was going to be following up with them put me on the back burner of their gray matter some what and they  were actually more ready to talk to me when I called instead of the I really haven't thought about it  square one type answer because they hadn't, your first call was basically in the discard pile mentally.

Mine was on the market for 10-whole days and I got a bidding war and ended up with a full price offer :)  Took 60 days to close, but it was a cake walk.Find a local COMMERCIAL agent, take'm to lunch and discuss your plans and ability to close, as those stupid escape clauses will just get you discarded as not being serious, so make offers you intend to close on.

That why you give the tenant the 30-day notice once you put the house under contract and have a time buffer before closing.2) I would not discard right away that an investor will not be interested and buying the house, specially when having a tenant in place is always a plus.

1) their ability to listen to our requests2) there ability to follow thru on them3) ability to discard properties which contradicted (1)

I have evaluated a few dozen properties now from several well known turnkey providers on these forums, and while they polish up their marketing materials pretty nicely, when I run my own numbers with my own financing and assumptions these deals rarely look interesting from a cash-on-cash return perspective, so I feel like I'm either I'm only seeing the scraps that other investors have discarded, or my expectations just aren't realistic on what to expect out of these turnkey providers when utilizing conventional financing.

The following folks use to provide a free download for wholesaling [sorry I have a cookout in a few minutes and didn’t check to see if link was current] reiclub.com/Free-Real-Estate-Book If you have to poke around their site, if this link is old, the free book will still be there as they don’t seem to discard anything, just move around the links:Otherwise, for wholesaling, I’d compare several of your local real estate investment clubs--or clubs in the nearest market that has active wholesaling, even if it's a reasonable drive.

I have a lot of wholesalers bring me junk and I discard it quickly.

Marketing, networking, driving, talking, searching, connecting, evaluating, discarding, marketing, networking, driving, talking, searching, connecting....did I say marketing?  

People just discard wrappers bottles cigarettes and trash as soon as they are finished they just drop it and walk on !