"thanks for reaching out but we are currently only working with more sophisticated investors and buyers"...is a classic!  

If your goal is to grow a real estate empire, then you will need a sophisticated setup and an asset protection real estate attorney is the best person to help you. 

There seems to be a perception on bigger pockets that you can get a much better deal if you bypass Turnkey and hire a realtor; I disagree.

They all just wanted to know how much they could get for their property.I'm sure distressed multi-family owners are out there when the market's hot, but obviously they will be much farther and fewer between than distressed SFR owners, both because there are so many more SFR owners and because multi-family owners, in general, are more sophisticated real estate-wise than SFR owners, most of whom aren't investors at all.Maybe I didn't spend enough on marketing or didn't know what I was doing or how to negotiate, but that was just my experience.  

Meaning if they can prove a sophisticated party has essentially outsmarted a non-sohisticated party in order to sign a contract or do business with that person then they can void the contract or agreement.  

Unfortunately we turn down many investors that come to us for various reasons.One of the big reasons is that if someone doesn't know what they want, I'm not the one to tell them what they should want.If I used such conversion tactics (Which I could easily do), would smell disaster long term IMO just like it did for many other overnight turnkey scammers promising 15%+ cap rates.It's not all about money/profit for us and it's also not all about baby-sitting incompetence either.We have enough "free" online marketing content where a half sophisticated investor can easily come to a conclusion about all of our offerings.Many try to side step the obvious and want more for themselves.Building a relationship in business but in life also shouldn't be about "take, take, take" or "me, me, me".It should be "give and receive"I bet that many folks can provide or offer some value in return from experience they gained from a W2 or in another way.Guess how many have offered something of value over my last 12 years of investing?

I commend you for working that hard for that little, but that's typically what you expect for very low skill labor, and you sound more sophisticated.

Real estate is much art as it is numbers.Everyone has perceptions, opinions, including not limited to agents, contractors, project managers and ultimately - the investor shelling out the money. 

A company would be punished by the feds and/or the market bc of perception.

Winter is always a good time and the perception in the market makes selling tricky but opportunity more present than last few years.