You fail to the systems in place, keep strong standards and the failure rate is light.

@Tim Holt, Yes INDEED house hacking is the best option for most 1st time buyers.  

In a slow market homes sit and rot, they are on the MLS forever and the longer it sits, the lower the price goes to find the sweet spot for just the perfect buyer.

Your wife as conservator/guardian has an obligation to her mother and selling the property to herself creates a conflict of interest in that she stands to benefit as the buyer and is also making decisions for someone else as the seller.2.

Upon information and belief, the member(s) of the Defendant have failed to observe any corporate formalities in that: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. 19.

When foreclosures dried up, we went after short sales and when those dried up we started to focus on properties with mold or foundation issues and learned how to fix those and when that started to become too difficult and the rehab was not worth it anymore I had to pivot again and we buy properties in good shape that fell through with another buyer.

I’ve tried talking to cash buyers, but the rates are so low that we would have nothing after selling it.

This will go a long way in creating a network and future sellers and buyers will start to see you as a resource in this arena.  

Looks like Whitestone is failing. 

They see foreigners as one-off buyers so they're not too much concerned about building a relationship or their reputation in the eyes of somebody who doesn't live there for that matter.