My personal experience is that by using an agent with a good marketing team, you can get a sales price that is high enough to offset the commission you will pay... but as an agent, I'm biased, of course. 

@Cathie Kovacs There are a lot of tax implications when investing in real estate via an SDIRA.There are strict rules and guidelines as well as possible tax liabilities (UBIT, UDFI) depending on the investment.I'm biased, of course, but a CPA is a necessary team member if you're using an SDIRA to invest in real estate.

In addition. the notion that white flight automatically assumes areas that were good will be bad speaks to a very ugly bias in my opinion.

making me a biased source for a specific app referral.

This is just a personal opinion and bias suggestion.

They work through the independent insurance agent channel (it is always best to work with in independent insurance agent, in my super biased opinion).

Can appraisers be biased?

There may be some grumbling at some point if you just try to get a realtor to do a CMA as one of your partners might question the relationship and if it bias' the CMA.The appraiser is a professional and independent.

I might be biased, but another city I would add to the list is Chattanooga, TN.

That book was written by a sociologist and focused specifically on poor families, so there is a heavily biased viewpoint.