Or, I might contact the owners myself, and the deal I know are looking to list- I will feed to a broker, again with the understanding they will feed me leads the other direction.

Do not feed into the things you can not control.

Whats helping is that I now have built up a really nice chunk of cash flow so that my rental income is now feeding the out of pockets costs on the deals. 

Bird dogs are generally competitors, since they're finding properties and feeding them to investors.

Akron is so close to Cleveland and big NE Ohio colleges so any turn around Cleveland has- Akron will feed off it too! 

If you agree on a price, and its not a phiranna feeding frency, you get it for a fair price, transfer the servicing, and have the collateral files sent to a company that scrubs them for defects, records anything that needs recording, creates anything missing, and stores them for you. 

The problem for him and many others when that 1st pmt came due and you had to feed the alligator.

Our mind is only as good as what we feed it. 

And they do exist, people will tell you which agent to stay away from but they won't tell you about the agent that keeps feeding them deals and was able to get them 15k over asking. 

Thank you all for your valuable feed back.