Small banks that have a long relationship with a customer can do many things, if they want to.

I have many mail carriers letting me know about vacant houses, and other info they provide just from talking to their customers.

I purchased Sims back in 2011 and they did a terrible job with set up and customer service.  

But really, you do get what you pay for.Yes, I'll use a CMS to build your site, I'm not going to code it fully custom.

Yea I hate when people are in customer service jobs and do a poor job at it.

While using the 70% formula is pretty popular and probably works pretty well, I agree with Aaron about the fact that you should have a good handle on all the costs associated with buying, holding, rehabbing and selling a property.Without a deep understanding of all the costs that go into rehabbing and renting property, you can't fully understand your customer's business, and without fully understanding your customer's business, you can't serve your customers nearly as well.And just like pretty much every other business, real estate wholesaling is about customer service...

They are subject to poor management and customer risk just like any other.

You also have a customer with fewer options who has been psychologically roughed up by the financial sector...they will be easier to please.

We, including me, and I'm going to start watching that a little closer, tend to speak empathically, as if one strategy or custom is absolutely the way to do something.Unless we are speaking of federal regulatory or legal issues, the rest is subject to local custom.

I had developed a good relationship with my customer, the older gentleman.