I also think or my impression is that the seller has you by the B@_Ls  :) Because he can smell the lack of confidence ( and people tend to smell that easy.

If this lacks clarity, please excuse, and ask what you need to know.

Obviously there is no true solution to currently to weed out all the bad apples ahead of time.

At that point, find a partner in some capacity who supplies what you lack, and go start knocking down deals.

(But that might just be my lack of experience with them.)

As someone with some free time and good analytical horsepower who lacks a large sum of capital I'm hoping to connect with experienced out-of-state investors to whom I could provide value in exchange for knowledge and experience and potentially some equity in deals.

My partner and I are so far ahead of most people starting off on the acquisition side and we have all the working pieces to grow exponentially but we simply lack the capital it seems.

It's the hidden fees and lack of transparency we commonly hear about regarding the industry.

Watch The Big Short.2019 we have a supply shortage, that can't be filled, because builders lack enough contractors and in many cases land.

If it's a warm season grass and it's dead in the summer, that's probably from lack of water.