In my opinion, yes a realtor has more safeguards in place and usually has more protections for themselves and their business, but in a market like we have now in many places there are lots of brokers just signing agents in hopes of capturing more volume and from what I see, offering much less quality service than in a normal or slow market.I guess part of the way I view them, without a very established relationship- the wholesaler is the yard sale, craigslist listing or facebook marketplace item. 

I'm also considering Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Zillow, and I know there's a ton of FSBO websites, but I figured on there I would be receiving a lot of inquiries from realtors. 

Each offer a small number of free sends per month and together, we can do all of our leases for our 7-home portfolio- Stessa - Accounting - Free to landlords- Facebook, our own website and google my business as ways to have a professional face to the outside world and when our potential residents google us- Facebook marketplace, Zillow, Rentler - advertising for tenants - all free to usOur tenants are C/B class except for two mid-term/corporate rentals, for which we also advertise on Airbnb.Now, if it were not both my wife and me doing this, it would be a challenge.

We get ours off of local Craigslist or Marketplace....

Competition in the market place, just like in real property puts downward presumes on those return ideas.

If you want specific recommendations you'll need to post in the Marketplace, though.You might be eligible for an FHA loan.

Almost all marketing materials contain some sort of language, so this is one of the most versatile tools at your disposal for building rapport.Physiology is most important when you are face to face, although components of it can an also be detected and influence rapport building over the phone.

Is what they are trying to achieve out there in the marketplace?

@Ned Carey  in addition one needs to have nexus lexus and be an expert at skip tracing.out our way the bigger players in this tend to be private detectives..and in many areas the counties make it darn tough as they don't like to see middle men taking 50% of peoples money.... this is an old Guru program that has kind of come and gone.

Many people just don't take advantage of those resources and it's a shame, not only for the landlord who is for sure losing money, but also for the marketplace because as those unprofessional landlords make mistakes and abuse the tenant-landlord relationship, the gov't finds the need to step in and as a result all of us are put under more stringent and costly regulations.