Even if it is perceived to be expensive, there might be others that you can JV with to make deals happen. 2.

It's a classic case of really low rents because no one cared enough to raise them or someone didn't want to deal with the perceived vacancies accompanying a rent increase.

If you think your assets or NW has something to do with your risk exposure, besides how you may be perceived, by all means buy on that basis and see how things work out with your 200K NW and a house blowing up.Liability insurance transfers risk from you to the insurance company, that is the purpose of insurance, to transfer and assume risk.

Consider your market.A fear, whether real or perceived, can be a deal breaker for some people.

I don't ask outright about kids or age on the phone or when meeting as you should not to be clear of being perceived as discriminating.

You'd have to be dealing drugs on the corner to get into a transaction that carries a perceived greater harm to the public.Slick talkers that convince someone to pay significantly more for a property than it's really worth is stealing by deceit, it's not clever negotiation it's theft of future equity.

The perceived approach of attempting to contact an owner will probably be that the listing agent will think or at least be aware of, the possibility that someone is attempting to circumvent them and the accepted process.

Marie's post about her dealing in RE, this could have been used to cover perceived dry spells.

If the Sponsor has significant skin in the game to offset other issues I've perceived negative, I might consider digging deeper; but without at least 10% of their own cash in the deal, the other issues I've mentioned would be too much too overcome - even if the advertised Projected Return is 101%.

The perceived value may be $195-200...but will a refi allow you to pull all of that equity out?