In my experience this site's all star professionals favor self starters who can and will get after it, while folks who need to be spoon fed get eaten alive by the gurus and salesmen who spot a mark.

An agent could spend all day looking for great deals for a dozen investors who want to be spoon-fed opportunities, but they don't have their money in order or they are too unsure.

We have rented several places, we didn't get any sparkling appliances.We didn't miss any "bad parts"; its just some people have very high standards of what they consider clean like wash an already washed plate or spoon before using and some others would just rinse their coffee cup before pouring in their evening cup.but then you should bring it up before you sign the lease.

Reminds me of the game "Pit" or Spoons where you yell "TWO TWO TWO" and someone grabs your cards and you swap them out again.

This is largely a self-help business - no one can spoon-feed it to you. 

I have a woman with whom I work that I'm spoon feeding financial books to! 

I don't want to ask that question, because I don't think it has an answer, and I think even spoon feeding someone an answer, they still are unlikely to have success, as they haven't done the requisite homework to evaluate and make best use of even a great answer.I'm a travel nurse, so I am quite rarely ever home.

We have a ton of small appliances, knives, spoons, etc.

Appraisals with Realtors involved (purchase transactions) come in consistently higher, in part, because at this stage in the game, wise Realtors know that if they spoon-feed the appraiser the data they need to do their jobs for them, that helps the appraiser get the job done faster, which amounts to the same thing as a bribe (in terms of $ per hour of work, this is "here I'll save you a few hours"), without being a direct monetary bribe or running afoul of the law.

I try to be self sufficient and largely spoon feed them the properties I am interested in.