While we avoid NY Notes like the plague, when they are performing they are as good as any other.

If you still want to try to be nice, I would connect your own equipment that you know runs good and perform a speed test in the exact same area that her device is at.

Have you run any numbers or put together a preliminary analysis to demonstrate the performance of the deal along with a proposed structure between yourself and the investor you are looking for and need?

You can engage them to perform the study, but find out exactly what they'd be able to do for you, first. 

A demanding career and graduate school had me stretched pretty thin over the past couple of years, and made it hard for me to delve in like I'd like. 

I am happy to labor for my future business on RE topics today :)I am interested in embarking on a marketing plan to find performing seller carry back notes. 

Perform and then the referrals come.

Now and then I would jokingly point out to him, "Hey, it says here, 'Past performance is not indicative of future results.'

So that was about 8 vacancies in about a 25 house stretch.

They have apparently made a decision there is a risk of them being viewed as a fiduciary to the IRA - which is a real stretch.