However I do get the people that don't want to get them since there are costs associated with it (and if you aren't doing "agent stuff" as a regular part of your business they might be hard to justify, especially if you are starting out and money is tight), I can also see the side of those that think it is a detriment since it isn't uncommon for a seller to be winning to work with an investor after having a bad experience with on of those numerous crappy agents in the past, as in they specifically do not want to work have a Realtor sell their house.I think that last one, along with the stuff about taking on extra liability risk, is very overblown but it isn't just ridiculous blathering either.The way to go is to have an understanding of many different strategies to be an actual problem solver and to also have the resources to perform on a contract if you get into one.  

Many investors want to sell for a wide variety of reasons, normally to tie the capital and focus it on a different investment. 

and if so did you include weasel clauses that would give you the ability to extent your escrow/contract one time with a small extension fee of $50-1000 paid at the time of the extension into escrow account without going back for seller approval, remember to safeguard your earnest money investment with good verbiage in your purchase, wholesale contracts, they are truly money savers again........hope that helps you it helped me on numerous occasion in the past..........

There are also, of course, numerous other ways to find properties that are not being actively advertised on the MLS, of which there are tons of posts on BP that might be of use.Best of luck!

There are a huge variety of options now.  

I have called the police upon numerous occasions and they can do nothing because no one monitors growth limits and police have to have a warrant to come on to property.  

I have tried a variety of different approaches to it and have only had luck three times.

Obviously, the numerator is the Gross Scheduled Income, but what do you folks use in the denominator (purchase price, purchase price + rehab costs, ARV, etc)? 

The good thing is that hour radius around where you live will give you access to a variety of markets.

Numerous times, we have started dialogue with real estate agents, and after a few emails back and forth, they seem to disappear!