It can lower the mortgage amount and eliminate PMI for Homebuyers.

Advertising, marketing, and mileage add up but realistically the only thing you need to do is spend gobs of time belly-to-belly talking to people, handing out your card one at a time as fast as you can, and listening for opportunities to help people.

As a renter or homeowner, pet liability insurance is a must, unless you don’t care about your finances going belly up.

And purchasing in a high end college town eliminates any "deals".

Mainly because I can craft the mortgage a little more (no pre-payment penalties, lower down payment, etc.) and eliminate the fees charged by lenders and brokers.One of the benefits of purchasing a listed property is that the broker will normally set the seller's expectations a bit more than you just contacting them off the street.It comes down to what the seller really wants: a certain price, interest, down payment, or term.

. ($325k downpayment should eliminate the tire kickers.) downside to your plan is you eliminate all the owner occupants as buyers.

Since I’ve increased my deal flow to a significant degree, I find that this technique eliminates the wasted time and effort of dealing with people who aren’t highly motivated to close a transaction.  

If it's a long-distance rehab, Facetime it.Do this often enough and it will limit (not 100% eliminate) the chances of missing something. 

Eliminate all popcorn ceilings, repaint everything, new flooring throughout, renovate bathrooms, add a bathroom, renovate the kitchen, improve outdoor living, improve curb appeal, and believe it or not, make the garage exceptionally nice.

Eliminate all popcorn ceilings, repaint everything, new flooring throughout, renovate bathrooms, add a bathroom, renovate the kitchen, improve outdoor living, improve curb appeal, and believe it or not, make the garage exceptionally nice.