I felt this question is relevant to this forum category since this is about what the consumer wants when it comes to buying real estate. 

With lending, we tend to stay away from consumer lending and we stick with commercial lending.

I'm still at the point where I am trying to consume more knowledge to converse with the greater REI community in a way that doesn't waste anyone's valuable time.

They do this because both marketing and rehabbing can be very time consuming.

I'll probably just hire out large, time consuming stuff like tile.I'm a pretty decent electrician, plumber, etc. so I don't want anyone to rip me off.

@James KendallHi JamesI would add some type of graphics or pics to make it easier to consume.  

If you have people you can trust in the construction trades (especially plumbing and HVAC), maintenance is not a time consuming thing. 

In NC, it's legal, but the previous AG who is now Governor felt it was anti-consumer, and the NC Real Estate Commission also did not take very kindly to assignments--I'm summarizing to add color commentary to the issue--you need to understand IN, assuming your property is local.The second point is to consider what's right.

Credit Karma is wrong, consumers accurately state their total usable assets less than 5% of the time, and the majority of Americans do not understand that if they get a 1099 then they aren't an employee. 

But it is slowly being eroded of it’s benefit when the consumer feels like they are being bamboozled.