While I understand the premisses of the notion, I still don’t quite understand how that works.

There used to be an unfair advantage around Real Estate Investing and the notion that it was the playground for only extraordinarily wealthy and connected.

There is this notion that government does what is best for the people, that is not the job of politicians.

I do agree with the notion that those things play into the decision and should be considered.

Option A: run LVP through the entire duplex. living room, kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.Option B: run LVP through everything and tile the bathrooms/ laundry room.Option C: LVP in the kitchen and bedrooms, carpet the living room and tile the bathrooms. 

Option A: run LVP through the entire duplex. living room, kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.Option B: run LVP through everything and tile the bathrooms/ laundry room.Option C: LVP in the kitchen and bedrooms, carpet the living room and tile the bathrooms.

In my first few years as an investor, I mindlessly subscribed to the notions that all tenants are headaches, all landlords are slumlords, and that I don’t want to field 11pm phone calls about plugged toilets.

The whole notion of “showing a preapproval for Exactly the offer amount and not higher, because Now they will ask more”....is just our amateur garbage.

I feel I would be more objective looking outside the areas I know, simply because I would have no pre-conceived notions of good vs bad.

However, Sellers always know when they are being fleeced, and they get angry about it, and often will retaliate with a higher counter than they normally would have responded with, because they are mad at the notion of someone trying to take advantage.My guess is (and this could be biased because I am a Realtor) that your agent didn't want you to just throw low numbers at the Seller, that might upset them, but rather come up with a smart pricing strategy for obtaining the price you think is fair, and the Seller can live with.