I get 12% on passive diversified lending funds (no effort on my end and diversified risk across many projects) and shoot for 18% on my own private lending where the loan is all on a single property and I do the work of qualifying it.

Also, I'm not sure I want to manage for others outside of this favor, so that would be why I didn't want to invest much effort or money into this.

So my turn around time is getting screwed up.Anyways I am planing to put the money and efforts and get the property in right shape.

This, and with some door reinforcement, it should make it a hardened target, not fool proof, but maybe too much effort.

One tenant of ours was genuinely baffled when we were "hassling" them because "they weren't even 30 days late" (yes I have an email to prove this).

With little effort you can be back in working order very cost-effectively. 

If you had $1,000,000 available in cash, it will take you a lot of time and effort to purchase 20 houses.

They key is knowing which investments are the easiest and most profitable without the time and efforts, somewhat turn key.

Why waste your time effort and money on a broker?

In addition, some investors would be motivated to mark the deals that they're interested in as having a bad ARV or repair numbers in an effort to scare off the competition.