Starting out, this may be the toughest thing for some to do, approaching an owner about selling their home to you. What do you say to the owner standing in the front yard, face to face?

Let's say we consider 1. a pro...

I hate to say, as an experienced real estate broker, that I have not had a buyer do inspections on a FNMA house, during the winter, before.Now I have an investor buyer under contract on a HomePath house after winterization.

Really hard to say as there are other factors as I mentioned.John Corey

Let's say a commercial brokerage pays me to conduct analysis on all of it's listings so that they could speak more intelligently to investors that come to them looking for deals.

Experts in wholesaling say a 2% return of phone calls per mailing campaign is a good turnout. 

Can't say as I have ever thought about quitting RE.

Lets say a 2br/1ba for 450k (prices on the market from 480k), and then find someone who needs to downgrade from 4/1 or 3/1 (prices from 670k).

You illustrated my point pretty well although i don't know enough of the companies to say that most are churn and burn, but I would say a vast majority are interested only in making money as fast as possible and turning as many transactions as possible.I am trying to pin down what investors are looking for when they turn to a Turn-Key company in the first place.

Although, I will say, a solid and trustworthy hard money / private lender will be invaluable when you're wanting to scale up your business. 

On say a purchase in the Marietta market,  you could get to 75%, and potentially maybe 80 LTV,  non-recourse (no personal tax returns), 30 year am, flexible terms, rates in the high 4s, step-down PPP.