The area enjoys a favorable cost of living (#1 Most Affordable Places to Live in US) and quality of life.

The reason I stopped building new spec houses is because the market and the high interest rates.

I'll pay the lowest fee for a single house to not be committed in areas where I just can't identify a really, truly quality agent.

The problem I find is I don't like putting in that much time doing research and field inspections (300-400 properties per week are auctioned) for such low odds that the property will sell at a price I need it to.....either the plaintiff will have a really high max bid set (like the full judgement amount) or another 3rd party bidder will bid it up more than it's worth.  

They should be doing at least 2-4 full remodels on their own per year on the high end.

What I've seen work best is having VA caller prospect target lists of motivated sellers (high equity, older properties, driving for dollars, etc).

I would highly recommend you look at Tampa.

Really high-level stuff!

But, the turnover in employees was high.

If we turn the tables and say it could be a 95% failure ratio. ( doubt it's ever that high but just for conversation sake) In general for the whole country if we count everyone.