well, I tend to agree on sellers and major repairs, but remember the sellers  often do required repairs in an inspection in my experience, and, yes, your interests diverge (they are leaving) but the owner will not be on the roof, the roofing contractor will, so if you can agree on the highest quality firms in your area, they probably won't do substandard work or compromise their reputation on one roof job. 

We hope to be able to learn a lot and firm lasting friendships here.

We already maxed out 10 Fannie/Freddie loans so I am now looking for SOLID contacts at regional banks or firms/ private lenders who will do "commercial" type loan / Line of credit / private loans for my new rental properties I will be purchasing.

@Mindy Jensen@Jennifer UmbaughThere will be brokers who will let you work at their firm and only work on your deals.

If you are in it for the long haul, you don't need to worry so much about short term market fluctuations. 

I'm a firm believer that there is no short cuts in life.

Hi, everyone,We are running a holiday giving campaign this week on our company page on LinkedIn to try to grow our network for our real estate investment brokerage and PM firm in Columbus, OH. 

sounds like he was patronizing you you should have all available information that you request and yes comps are very important be firm with him and run all the numbers thru the rental calculator on bigger pockets 

Why not get a more firm number?

Check your state as well and be firm in your resolve.This is a technique I had to learn the hard way...but I never understood how building code "modulars" could be assembled in a factory with all the inspections like electrical and plumbing so I called them and asked how many county building inspectors they had on payroll to build all those homes and they said "None".