He recently had to switch property managers and his current manager has fallen short on promises.

The odds are stacked against the average investor getting the returns he has been promised *long term*.

I can all but promise an old house like that will have another issue before you make up the water heater...

The politicians make promises of “affordable housing for all “ but it seems to be the carrot they use to get people to vote for them .

I promise you that no matter how many multiple offer situations you drop out of, I would continue to send you that notification every time I had more than one offer on the table. 

I can promise you that despite all the "likes" and "congrats" one gets it makes people jealous more than anything and they aren't really that happy for you. 

Now, if Friday came and went and you didn't get the rest of the money that was owed as promised and you couldn't get ahold of the tenant at that point, that'd be a different story. 

If I happen to be able to sell the contract to someone else for a slight mark-up then I might do that, but I don't have to and I intend to make sure that either way, the seller will get the promised amount.3.

These are consistent results over the course of 18 years investing in real estate, across multiple locations, in both buyer and seller markets.But if I contact 10 listing agents, 5 of them won't respond at all, 3 will just flat out say no without talking to the seller, and 2 will promise to present the offer to the seller but I'll never hear from them again.It makes no difference if I do it verbally, written, or do handstands naked outside the real estate office.How do you explain that discrepancy?

It is difficult to get honest reviews online as people buy or fake them.