All it would take is 1 unhappy seller to claim they sold their home too low based upon my BPO and any profits I made with that service could go towards increased premiums in the future.  

There will likely be a higher premium to insure college student housing.  

You should always take a portion and put in savings for future transactions, and remove your initial investment capital with a three year cost of capital allotment (meaning in three years due to inflation money is worth less so you should add a premium to ensure you still have your working capital) then after that the sky is the limit.

One of my new home projects I am building we had targeted 350k sale price when we hit the market Oct 2015. .. we are now at 370k today.. sold one today for 369k.. so nice upward movement nothing of the level of premium bay area but when you take that and average it over 22 homes we have remaining.. ( sold first 5 at the 350 to 355k number) that's a close to 500k gain for the project in 4 months..

They will probably charge you are premium.

Additionally, my guests have paid a high cost - they rightfully expect premium service and occasionally demand some extra benefits, which comes in many flavors...but always exerts a time or cost on my bottom line. 

Can anybody tell me how I can present alternatives that would be lucrative for a property owner to actually want to sell like me paying a premium, etc?

Think about it this way.....when a title company can get 100% of the title premium as well as all the closing fees vs Splitting the premium and none of the closing fees.....which do you think becomes the priority ?

The older buildings you do not push top market rents too much as when newer buildings are constructed tenants flee to the newer product if they are paying a premium if location and amenities are similar or better.Although vacancies are at record lows across the country people should not project that out over a 5 to 10 year span that it will stay that way.

They have a minimum earned premium of $250.00, so I set my flippers up on the policy as a monthly billing and they keep it to the point of the $250.00 before rolling it to a landlord type policy or if they sell, they get billed the remaining of the $250.00.