I used them with a lot of success throughout the years, but they were never a mainstay of my acquisition techniques.  

Quote from @Jonathan Greene: All of your posts are sales techniques to drive business to you and you dial it back by making it like I was being mean to you.

Agents may also have macro data on historical data, local median sale prices, absorption rate, etc to help with your analyses and projections.Networking/build a team: Attend local meetups, virtual meetups and stay active on forums like this.A lot of this will be done in front of a PC unfortunately but if you cut out the noise, you'll be able to maximize your time.Lastly, something that has helped me tremendously with respect to focus and improving efficiency is the pommodor technique. 

The 1% rule incredibly flawed, even as a short form underwriting technique.

Spam and spammers evolve - their techniques evolve, the posters change, the things that are being spammed change.

Same pet, two different owners, can have two different outcomes.Haven't though of this yet, but Alecia Loveless' technique of putting in the lease that tenants pay for any/all pet damage is smart.

@Luis MazaIf you struggle with a wholesaler, reach out for more, there's usually a dozen or so good wholesalers in every market in the land....In addition to that, as a business strategy I would say that a great thing any flipper can do is develop their own off-market seller marketing techniques.

Knowledge of techniques and terminology is great - but if you don't take action, all is lost.

There are old style martial arts that are outdated for todays times and then there are progressive martial arts that use techniques for real world self defense.No legal advice given.         

Cash for keys is a terrible technique preached by rookies.