However, if you can acquire these properties in some other fashion you may be competitive and have multiple options in the marketplace here.

Rheem uses an old fashioned thermostat with no electronics.

I wasn’t aware of this reservation fee and I felt that it was unethical to charge the client this amount without my knowledge and more importantly, I feel that I should also be entitled to this fee in some fashion.

After watching how it affected him and so many others, we felt it was important to create awareness through fashion, powerful messaging, and design.

They exist now either to soften the blow of living in a nice area and then later taking your equity and moving onto something else, or as in the aforementioned Palisades Park example, letting a close knit family live side by side in an affordable fashion.

Otherwise you'd have to do it the old fashion way and start building your own credit.  

Advantages for investor, usually they can go in deals at lower minimums and create a mutual fund type of investments across geographies and niches.If you feel you or your partners are fairly connected to capital and you have a good market, deal and experienced team, I personally like the old fashioned capital raise bypassing any middleman.  

I'm just saying the old fashioned way works great if no one is home regardless of the lock.

OLD FASHION CALLING I THINK PHONE SKILL ARE VITAL...MOST OF MY DEAL CLOSED OVER PHONE STUDY THE PHONE

Many agents are old fashion, so there's an opportunity there.