You should think about minimizing stink as less about breathing in harmful substances and more about being comfortable enough breathing to devote your full attention to doing a job carefully.

Or is this a scam?

Hi Everyone,I have been lurking on BP for quite a while but have recently left my full time job and now have the time and energy to truly devote to my real estate investing.

If someone called me saying they were an agent, I'd just assume it was a scam since they didn't call CSS directly to set up an appointment to see the property.

Too bad there are so many scams built around this strategy, that's where I caution others.Joel, you have a great plan as well, it's smart to build your business around 2 or 3 main themes to address business cycles in RE.Build a business, not a job!

One might think "who cares, exposing the home to as many buyers as possible will increase my price as a seller," but many realtors are scam-artists and care more about getting paid faster than they care about another $10,000 in sales price (net ~$150 to the realtor - this was discussed in the book Freakanomics btw).

@Patrick Shawn Faherty be careful shopping around in too many markets - you leave yourself open to being scammed by a TK provider telling you this is a "great part of town."

REI has always been my second passion and luckily I can now devote all my time to it.

You might have missed recent FBI public service announcements concerning what they view as FC scams, helping people in a FC.

So as an investor buyer you need to know EXACTLY what it is you want and be able to explain that.2) Time to devote to an Investor buyer - An investor buyer takes just as much time to babysit as a regular buyer - time to figure out what it is that they want, time to watch listings and preview them for their buyers, and time to go show them.