The side that has more information about the item to be negotiated and about the relevant market or industry has more power in the negotiations .

@Tyler LushbaughYou don't need a real estate license per se if you are going to buy and hold or fix and flip, but it gives you the power to control your own destiny and not be at the mercy of real estate agents who are either too busy or extremely uninformed on how to work with investors.

Your main constraint will be your analytical nature.  

So I've been flipping for a couple years, but I'm tight on my debt to income ratio and don't want to ruin my ability to flip. I currently have 3 mortgages. 1 personal residence and 2 flips which will be sold soon. Any...

@Tristian Streeter based on your email you are not dealing with an entity that has the power to say yes to your offer to purchase.

Yeah, I have the power shut off whenever we're not using it.

We'll call this agent A.  I

What part do you need help with: finding properties, funding sources, rehab techniques, finding power team members, finding buyers, contracts and paperwork?...... 

However at the end of the day I think any reasonable person would see that Chloe Eudaly is clearly a self-important, economic ignoramus, who is a power hungry SJW on a mission to impose as much socialist regulation as she possibly can. 

To calculate utility bills per square footage seems like a good estimate, but you can have the tenant that is efficient and likes to save power, while the other tenant blasts AC with the windows open and always has the lights/TV on.