Be honest and rate yourself from 1-10... if you're a 10 in marketing but a 4 in sales, instead of losing deals and higher spreads to "learn the ropes", you can max out on what you're good at, bring that value to the table and find a 10 in sales.This goes with everything among the business...We realized we sucked at initial calls so instead of getting better, we focused on hiring the best at initial calls, and this was one of our best hires. we went from 10 deals/month to 20 deals/ month almost by the next month after the hire.We did this again on the title side, and it freed up our work load to almost half it's size.Moral of the story provide value with what you are good at, value exchange and partner with someone, or hire people to fill the spots you aren't optimal in.Doing so allowed me to create a virtual wholesale system in other cities (right now we are looking for the best wholesalers in San Antonio to expand to also) by providing my value: prescreened high quality leads, to good wholesalers... we split 50/50 they get leads ready to sign, I take on the marketing and screening, they create the bigger spread than I could, I cover marketing costs, they get 50% equity split on leads that were free to them... that's a win-win-win... allowing us to expand to as many deals/month the experienced wholesaler can handle.

The markets are generally stable due to large universities in each area, however certain areas have very high crime rates to be wary of.

The Drake University area is one of those areas where it could go either way. 

Interesting Hedge funds are buying in virtually every city in america all the time.. nothing unique about Detroit.. although i agree with you Detroit in certain areas has bounced back.. but its still very neighborhood specific.. cant just say all of Detroit is wonderful.

Hi Everyone, I a new licensed Broker in the Chicago/Chicagoland area. I have hired some assistants to help me maximize contacting my leads. However, does anyone know of a software that I can use to upload leads from a...

Student housing like an international house could be one option but that would only be if a university is walking distance or easy mass transit. 

There isnt really a universal purchase agreement.

Its universally accepted .

We get virtually no turnover in our 3 or 4 BR units (last one turned over was >10 years ago).  

You can always ask them who their thesis advisor is at the university and contact them.