pid=1593Houston Real Estate Highlights in January:• Single-family home sales fell 8.1 percent year-over-year, with 4,100 units sold, marking the third consecutive month of declining sales;• Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes lowered from 68 to 65 days;• Total property sales tumbled 8.4 percent, with 5,011 units sold;• Total dollar volume declined 4.4 percent to slightly more than $1.3 billion;• The single-family home median price edged up 1.4 percent to $222,000, reaching a January high;• The single-family home average price increased 2.4 percent to a January high of $277,483;• Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 3.7-months supply, up from 3.2 months last January and equal to the national inventory level;• Townhome/condominium sales fell for a fifth straight month – down 10.5 percent, with the average price down 2.3 percent to $188,268 and the median price down 2.8 percent to $154,250;• Lease properties saw their strongest performance since November 2017, as single-family home rentals climbed 16.5 percent with the average rent up 0.4 percent to $1,755;• Volume of townhome/condominium leases surged 16.4 percent with the average rent down 0.8 percent to $1,504.

So you can't use it for high volume stuff. 

If you are doing work on multiple properties, you can get discounts buying cabinets and other items due to the volume.

Top high volume agents have a lot of this done by their unlicensed assistants.

Now investment potential #2, strategy A has a fair profitable return, nothing to jump over but fair, exit strategy B is nearly matching profit % just an earlier exit and lower volume, exit C is a bit reduced but ok, and this goes on with profit potential exits all the way to H.

Trolling the market waters with offers can work, but it is a numbers game of sheer volume then.  

This works well if you personally do a fair amount of transaction volume.  

Once you hit a certain volume, you can poach your regional by offering them a better salary plus equity in your deals. 

but it puts you in the game it gets you talking to those doing deals.. but if your goal is to just be a landlord unless your doing some serious buying volume probably not worth the effort. keep in mind its only a few grand a year to keep a licesne what other business can you pay such a small amount and make unlimited money or very good money..

Mostly, what you give up is volume of potential buyers causing your house to stay on the market longer.