In the meantime, I had a bad experience with a local (Seattle area) custom cabinet maker so I'd love some recommendations on folks who do high quality work, but are reasonably priced and responsive.

I recommend Deal Maker Sessions and Metrolina REIA.

The listing agent is not the ultimate decision maker, their client, the bank, is.

That's what we're working on now... one or two sources, same general requirements (stainless steel vs black, ice maker or no, top-down vs side by side, etc). 

If you can lease it quickly, you know the market, you know how to get to restaurant decision makers locally, then it may make sense to do it yourself; however, if the leasing function cuts into your time for your primary job, then probably makes sense to outsource it. 

So for smaller guys, you really don't need to be exact to make really good profit, and for bigger companies they have a ton of experience and analysis infrastructure they don't want to trade the liability for the charity.

With most REO's, the decision makers are most interested in seeing clean offers that have a high likelihood of closing.

They keep adding new features which I like - and even when I had only one unit - it was well worth it to make rent payments easy!

I have a credit score above 800 as well and my assets have proven to be good money makers, my next property in the spring will be my stopping ground for a while so I can build up a solid security fund (currently $8K - shooting for $30-$40K).

We have a monthly meeting - first Tuesday of every month 7pm at the Airport Marriott called Deal Maker Session.