I am Wholesaler, Flipper and Creative Subto/Creative Financing Investor/Buyer/Seller as well as a Realtor in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Palm Beach and Bay Area.

Screen well and put in good people.

So make sure you understand the difference of how your loan dollars are or are not secured. and then there are funds were your money is spread but your not specifically tied to a certain loan so in essance unsecured as well.

Flips can be good money as well but I would avoid unless you have a very experienced partner in it. 

The interior is stuck in the 1980's but the condition of everything is still well-maintained.

Portions of the Catskills & Adirondacks are good locations, as well as Saratoga (if you can find an affordable property).

He explains that this process is a never-ending loop within a cycle.When you mention how easy it is for GMs to blame the market, I assume they are not learning from those mistakes and therefore not increasing their knowledge within their cycle.

An agent should have boots on ground and walked through hundreds of properties in an area, and sold them as well.

That way if they back out they're backing out on a lease as well, which they don't do.

Well, you kind of are in that business.