I've spread my investments between stocks/bonds, real estate holdings, education infrastructure, health care industry infrastructure, and agriculture infrastructure.  

I don't really care for their opinion on rental rates, so I won't be having conversations with them about it.We know how much rent we need to get to make a decent profit on any given house, but I'd like to be able to figure what we should be getting, based on the market. 

It’s a condo which also has foundation issues which the hoa is supposed to take care of but only god knows when that will happen.

Be REALLY careful with this one.  

Ikea warranty is something like 10 years and they don't care who damaged it.

Be careful, there may be a reason those properties weren't picked up in the previous auction. 

You are doing business with family and if your brother has no money and high credit card bills along with getting married ( assuming his bridge to be's family is taking care of the wedding cost ), this sounds like a relationship killer waiting to happen.

That's most of what I really care about.I don't mind when a wholesaler includes estimates on the ARV, the rehab cost, the expected rent, etc. as long as those are accurate.

Most importantly be careful.

This allows you to make your sellers feel as though they are in an exclusive group of home owners that have the best homes on the block. often times you can lead with a very simple and honest, "I would like to add your home to the package of carefully selected properties to be sold to cash buyers, there's nothing you would need to commit to even if someone made an offer to buy it."