I have found this a challenge as well and wasted nearly a year with really poor property management.

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Long Beach.

Purchase price: $750,000

Cash invested: $187,500

Bought a value add quadplex that was almost all vacant in Lon...

If they are not able to do seller financing and that is all you are able to do, then you (and the realtor) are just wasting your time.

If I cannot get a video then I don't even waste their time or mine!

So I have made it difficult and time consuming so that they will won't want to waste the extensive time it would take to try and win a suit against me. 

I understand that this is not an accurate enough system to base your whole business off of but I'm wanting to get ball park estimates first and then diving deeper with a contractor instead of wasting the contractors time giving me bids for properties that don't make sense from the get go.

What most call "deals' I would even waste my time on that.

I saved just over $10,000 in less than a year, while my friends ate junk food and wasted money at the bars etc.

But know that people waste more utilities when they don't have to pay for them directly.

So you don’t waste your timelooking at all locations, prioritize and pick locations that put youin a more favorable location between your future competitionand your residential customers.