My question is this, do the sellers have any choice?

When I represent a buyer on the retail side, the main factors are budget ($250K means Brockton, not Wellesley), commuting options (highways, commuter rail, commuter boat), Schools (refer to www.GreatSchools.org) and crime (I use Trulia's crime heat maps).For investors, it's a lot more about where the investor wants to be. 

There's a good amount of takeaways here, but my main action item is to continue to research different regions on my own. 

We have our investment criteria and if we can underwrite at/near the investment criteria (given our market research - mainly centered around growth and employment outlooks), then we go ahead with a deeper analysis/LOI. 

We mainly look for a monthly cash flow of $250 or higher with a CoC return of 12% or better but we do deviate if one is substantially high while the other metric is lower.

My main concern right now is being inexperienced and jumping into a market like Dallas which is very very hot right now.

I think telling them you might use them in the future but provide all of this free crap today is a waste of time.Any smart commercial broker will not spend time on such things.Why not just pay for a report or send them a nice gift card to the restaurant of their choice?

I know how frustrating it can be to have a bad property manager, it was the main reason I wanted to get into managing.

Main Home: My thoughts were that they have breached the contract by not providing the keys or allowing entry to the property with proper notice.

Good times....I used to think it was cloudy too until I realized that it was always clear on Sundays - that's when all the factories are shut down.The pool and gym in my complex were closed daily from 11am-1pm so as "to give people two choices - a morning or afternoon session - instead of just one".