He’s not just an REA, but also puts his money where his mouth is with in regards to REI projects as well.

This also ignores the supply issue, concessions, higher marketing costs, or class A so it's not a cut and dry answer.Lastly, consider the potential distress in office, retail, and hospitality assets and that PE funds and developers are foaming at the mouth to get a piece of the pie.

Sold the house word of mouth 2 months before we were done.Lessons learned?

Dan pulled the words out of my mouth.

Without a sign up near a university you'll miss a good number of potential tenants (through friends and other Word Of Mouths), but still the primary driver of university rentals will be online, but not usually Craigslist. 

My business is entirely word of mouth at this time.5.

I have nothing polite to say about AMC's so I will keep my mouth shut.While you turning down his 6 plex prob. didn't help matters this type of result is not uncommon - unfortunately it is very common and your last line is 100% true.Good appraisers who charge more are not being used in favor of this type of an appraiser at some of the AMCs for sure.

Hey Cara Smith - A buyer's list could be people from a investor club, or from craigslist ads, or from classifieds, or from word-of-mouth, referrals from real estate agents, people you find on BiggerPockets, or hundreds of other sources.

Also I don't want you to think I was looking to bad mouth the lender that was not the case at all!!!

Alright BP I am taking steps to finally putting my money where my mouth is.