After ten years as a Realtor and helping lots of investors with all sorts of different styles, goals, and levels of expertise, I can hands down say that I am looking for two things:First, someone who is actually able to purchase/invest (pre-qualified, cash in hand, or funds lined up) OR who is genuinely interested in learning/working with their agent on how to get there.Secondly, they are willing to listen to and partner meaningfully with their agent. 

I am genuinely trying to assess the role of a buyer realtor from a seller perspective :) As for the seller realtor, I am pretty confident that my market analysis is as good as the best realtors in my part of the town :) Also my seller realtor has been doing a pretty good job in getting properties sold for top dollar in this market.

This will help you establish an investment criteria specific to you and recognize the bad, good, and great deals when you see them.Good luck!

This can help you develop your own investment criteria and recognize bad, good, and great deals.It might be a great option to partner with someone who has more experience to guide you through an investment.

Others might stumble across this post so I'll address a couple of things for the others who might be here and then provide some solutions here as well.Generally speaking there are 2 main types of loans for investors: “Conventional” and “Portfolio”Conventional - I'll define these as loans that come from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (if you recognize those names).

You want someone who has genuine interest in increasing rental rates, maintaining or improving the value of the property and keeping the costs low.

If you're genuinely making money on your rentals (i.e., they are profitable AFTER depreciation) you should be paying some additional tax.

Cherie:You have a great problem here with lots of (good) options.First of all, not many people recognize what you seem to be intuitively finding here. 

I recognize you can drive in the linens from Costco or Target but me personally i dont like my towels to be mismatched after utilizing them and restocking them so i dont want to always by and ship in or drive in.

It means that not only is it rare, it’s unique and genuine.