This will result in duplicative disclosures to the consumer for the same transaction, conflicts between rates and charges, and in many instances duplicative examinations for the same transactions by different state agencies.

At this point there is no shortage of consumer advocates, reporters, anti free market thinkers, etc. wanting to use a failed deal as evidence of "crooked" investors taking advantage of homeowners.As legitimate real estate investors we must do our best to be absolutely truthful up front.

I am joined BiggerPockets as a way of learning how I can better improve the free software platform we are developing.

bandit signs are great but in reality it is too time consuming and I feel that if i say I am going to go out every other weekend and place 50 bandit signs and not get good results I may give up because of the effort involved in that on top of handwritting letters.

My concern is since finding the right agents to work with might be time consuming, what are other strategies besides fsbo?

In the long term, the ACO model will also likely fail and be replaced by a single payer system (see the Democrat party platform).

Josh - Over the past few months I have been consuming as much information on wholesaling as possible.

That simply says that 50% of the gross rents will be consumed by expenses (i.e., taxes, insurance, routine maintenance, property management fees, utilities (at least when vacant), CPA fees, legal fees, make-ready costs, etc), capital (big expenses that have to be capitalized over multiple years - roofs, furnaces, sewer lines, etc), and vacancy.

Shari: I think the additional challenge is that your buyer's loan falls under "consumer loan" which has everyone concerned about all the recent regs.

Courthouse research is rather time consuming though.