If brokers and agents followed the bpo companies rules values would not be influenced at all.Having said that there are brokers/agents who get kicked out of BPO companies for this very practice.Most companies have an electronic signature form that we have to sign before submitting the finished BPO online.It says in a nutshell that we have not talked to,taken comps,relied upon ANY investor,contact,seller information etc. to influence our value and that we have inspected the property and pulled the comps ourselves.BPO companies (mills) are really tightening down the standards as they are competing against other mills for large institutional orders.The local to regional banks use brokers/agents more on a direct basis than the national banks that farm most bpo's out.

I did a recent walk through and discovered that someone removed the dishwasher and damaged the cover of an in wall A/C unit.

This is by far the best real estate investment forums I have discovered and it's members are very friendly.

OTH, many notes are bundled and sold in blocks and some may be cherry picked, but this is usually accomplished in a more institutional manner or with companies or brokers that participate.

I've read so many articles and books on marketing my brain feels like jelly (and yes I'm not just reading and talking I'm instituting what I've learned).

BP is a fantastic resource that I only recently discovered.

Once we discovered that we were no longer getting a bill, we told him that we maintain the water bills for our owners, so that they don't have to worry about liens, and he'd get billed by us.

The only kind of hospital that a legal order can force you to stay in under the circumstances you describe is a mental institution.

There are properties with very long term leases to AAA credit tenants where the income from the property is so high that a lending institution will make a loan based almost solely on the renrtal income stream.

One thing I have discovered that leads to greater chance of success is defining your market.