I don't need $1000 bad enough to have some nut job hurt my family.

Facebook and text drive me nuts too.

As for customer service and relationships...my bank agents are nice and easily accessible, however, those relationships have yet to be fruitful in terms of lending.

After rounds of emails my wife the clinical therapist says she's nuts. 

Im in the Atlanta and Cleveland markets from Texas and have enjoyed the fruits of out of state real estate with 6.08% yields on a couple of properties after 2 years and 14.07% YTD. 

Most of the high-volume wholesalers are getting a premium for their deals and sometimes they are buying them and "wholetailing" them.The market will change with the housing bubble and wholesalers will be less valuable as bank own properties "REO's" will be the low hanging fruit, per the investor buyer perspective (just like what happened in 2008).

I thought it was nuts, but they did it and the rationale they had was doing the work they do, they made more in the city and by living where they did, they could afford more. 

It can be a fruitful but frustrating market to work in.I don't send mailers as it takes too long to get to the seller and they will probably have relisted by the time they get the mailer.

For many, it's probably better to find the lower hanging fruit of U.S. real estate to invest in.

@Justin Fox I am not a tax expert, but what I have done is taken the total construction cost (including all the nuts and bolts, less my labor) as my basis.