Some areas have higher crime rates and lower tenant quality, which can lead to more management headaches and higher vacancy rates.

I must be doing something right because I never attempt to generate leads, and I've been 100% successful so far! 

(Foundation, etc)4) Black mold, asbestos, lead paint, other other costly repairs. 5) It need significant cosmetic repairs where the purchase price just isn't worth it. 6) They may have an odd layout of the rooms. 7) Non-compliant septic.8) Trouble with permits or tenants9) Listing agent has a poor or incorrect listing.

Which leads to various shady over-leveraged negative equity SubTo deals start imploding in mass AND the tsunami of calls to Atty G. offices from various sellers getting burned, the tsunami of court fillings of such......

The higher credit, higher income, gainfully employed S8 tenants are choosy about where they live and do not want to live in a bad, high crime area.By buying in an area that appeals to high quality S8 tenants, the arbitrage that you might see between S8 being higher than market might disappear.So that being said, it’s more important to lead by location than strategy.Happy to talk further if you like.  

The combination of high costs and the after-repair value (ARV) frequently leads me to conclude that buying a new rental property is a better use of capital.

I am sure some will do it with phone and e mail etc.. but I suspect they miss the best deals.Just like top wholesalers they have buying agents when a lead comes in that buying agent is over to the house and meeting with the folks ASAP so they can lock it up.. if they are non owner occ then yes this is different but now your talking about investors as sellers different mind set .  

Nice…You can’t offer less for a property full of fire rubble (lead and asbestos?)

Overall CoC would be 4288 / ($8,735 + $7,976) = 26% +/- a few basis points account for cost of capital.By adding just one more investment we see a 6% increase in total CoC with only a 4 month additional lead time to full collection (negligible impact from time-value of money) and a ~6.5% increase in yield for the subsequent investment.Final ThoughtsFollowing the math suggests that doing more short-term investments makes the performance metrics exponentially better over time, and on their own their own they are still akin to modest although not Earth shattering returns.I add these details from the context of being a Tardus client for the past year.

It would definitely be fraud if this was the case, a recent post from an auctioneer talked about this exact situation, where they said the auctioneer was liable (different bedrooms/type of home example you don't have to read it) States would differ though and it doesn't seem black and white. https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/no-li...I do agree with you that it could very well lead to being burnt, however.