In some areas investors have a bad reputation because of a few bad apples, so you need to let them know you are serious and worth it for them to help.

as you get more units, the law of numbers says you'll get bad apples so it's best to cover your butt.

Development and re-development improves the community.As others have said there are bad apples, as in any business.

For every rotten apple like New Western, there are at least 2 with high integrity like Carlos, Stinson or Jon Klaus just to name a few.Put another way to the OP and all of BP nation: If you live elsewhere and want to do a DFW deal, find or make some solid BP colleagues to help you out.

I recently read (no personal experience) about a landlord offering certain services included in the rent, such as cable tv.

Hmmm, comparison of apples to oranges.

I still watch a lot of 'flip this house' shows on TV and always have the bug to start doing them again.

I just replaced furnace in one+ brand new gas line and insulation and a couple new windows. 1st duplex done 3 more to go. lol In addition to that Im going to next week or 2 after start working up some empty lots I bought to do an apple, pear orchard.

They also do this for the TV with Dish, bringing in 1 connection and redistributing the channels to all units for an up charge.

I'm always amazed at the TV shows on flipping where they show the people selling the house after the rehab and they're explaining to the prospects how bad the house was before they just fixed it up.