Linoleum is a wood product that is expensive and difficult to install and not many hard surface installers know how to do it now a days as you don't find it except in commercial installations that require something burn resistant(that's the reason they call it battleship linoleum cause that's one of the main areas you can find it; on a Navy ship.Sorry this went on so long but hopefully this explains things for Bigger Pockets investors.

Follow the buyer and start a new camp fire elsewhere, or focus in like a magnifying glass on the area you've already started a fire in burn in even larger?

@Robert Burns I worked for a brokerage that used Zbuyer, we had good success with it.

If you don't have the time to burn around locating opportunities then I would suggest working with an investor minded agent that can bridge the gap between the retail and investment markets. 

Rather than potentially burn a connection with the low offer, I decided to wait patiently to hear about the closing of the property I liked and the other property for sale.

Yeh, but too hard to burn that kind of cash he has,  even we buy 4-plex that are worth buying 

Several factors to consider would be the risk of a child getting burned on a radiator, long term maintenance costs of the different systems, and if I would be able to charge more rent with one of the gas options, etc.

Michael Williams can't be serious.He needs to understand half the folks on BP have looked into stocks and still favored RE.We can't all be morons.Maybe if he looked up a bit from the spreadsheets once in a while,he'd actually be able to see all the houses in his neighborhood.Simply assuming any kind of returns on any amount invested in the stock market is folly.Unless you pick stocks yourself,average return with most mutual funds hardly beat inflation....I know,because they still manage my retirement stock account.And if you do pick your own stocks,you could get burned big time with a few bad bets and lose big.And you don't claim depreciation on stocks.I bought a duplex last month for 126k.Its already rented and cash flows 1600/month.Roughly 16% COC/ROI.It's in a great area and will appreciate with equity.If I put the same money into mutual funds,I'd be lucky to get a 6% ROI unless I buy speculative stocks and risk losing it all.Or 2008 could happen.If 2008 happens with my duplex,I still keep it and reduce rent to keep tenants in it.All I could do with the stocks is watch the sea of red.Selling would be a grave mistake.Michael needs to put down the spreadsheets.

You can make money using an agent, it is just harder to do.......... there are other ways.I am a broker and understand the agent culture........it is an honorable business......it is a lot of hard and long work that agents are involved in.......it is sometimes a thankless job.As investors we need to find the unwanted, unlisted ugly real estate with equity and with motivated sellers; houses, commercial and non-conforming properties to survive in this competitive real estate business.

I do wholesaling as overflow or unwanted inventory, as I do higher volume of deals in bulk I don't want to cherrypick one SFH at a time, but other investors do, so I always know single unit deals that want to be sold, and investors who want in on a unit like that, so I wholesale it to that investor for about 10%.