I was looking at my long term plan the other day (which I drew up in 2013) and realized it is going to be an impossibility in the northern Virginia market because returns are so slim.I love Richmond and while I'm not crazy about long distance investing and property managers, I know there's a lot of potential in that market.Bottom line, I'm looking for stable, low vacancy SFH's in the $100-120k range, in up and coming areas, which rent for about 1%/month, and I plan on using a management company.

I still wouldn't have agreed with you, but at least wouldn't have thought you wanted someone with 1,000 plus doors to just give them to next 10 people in line who didn't put in any effort to get them.

When I checked originally to open the line, they had the best rates to begin with.

Your question does not seem to relate to your subject line.

Do backup offers ever end up working and in what scenarios could my offer come to the front of the line??

Do backup offers ever end up working and in what scenarios could my offer come to the front of the line??

I used Corporate Housing By Owner and used a discount code I found on line to get the Silver Package so it came out to be about $350 for the year.

Very Make it Happen minded and very aggressive in terms of keeping realtors in line.  

At the limits of what this society tolerates in membership fee avoidance are agents of the IRS.But what's far more interesting for me is what keeps the bulk of the population in line. not the tiny minority of criminals or major tax cheats.

Sure enough, while moving-in on 7/18/18, we saw Comcast outside of our house digging and laying the internet/cable lines.