The non-sophisticated owners in these small towns are very likely to have well below market rents, management and expense inefficiency, no website, no advertising, no additional profit centers.

starting to work its way into the Consumer Payroll sector. 

My services are in high demand as I run my business like a professional.What a sophisticated agent would have done would be to contact the owner & see if they were paying commissions prior to showing the home.

Sophisticated investors invest on cashflow where the rents exceed the mortgage plus expenses (and enough money to pay for professional property manage to do our dirty work).Sophisticated investors look at the Rent-to-Value Ratio and look for at least 1% or more to be able to cashflow after expenses.

Every time I play with snakes....Thank you for bringing to light the pain (not to mention the thousands and thousands of fees) to optimize ones ROI through equity harvesting, equity-stripping, leveraging your assets or whatever the latest 'sophisticated' way is to grow.  

Every time someone wants to get sophisticated with little houses it boggles the mind the quantity of potential problems with financing, insuring, title insurance, etc that could be deemed invalid when transferring an asset out of one's name into an entity.   

Hello Bigger pocket folks,They are a group of real estate investor mentors that wanted $40,000 to provide some pretty sophisticated software and walk you through tax liens and flipping your first two houses.

Most are accredited investors and some are sophisticated.

MF properties have the same number of surprises as SFRs but when a MF surprises you it's a lot more painful...Most MF owners and especially HML people are sophisticated investors and will foreclose on you faster than you can imagine and they will not hesitate to do that.Get a second job, hustle, maybe wholesale a few deals until you build a small amount to cover your a$$ from surprises before you jump in.

It adds a level of sophistication and professionalism that sends a message to the tenants that we mean business..