So you have a ton of buyers chasing limited inventory.

Don't chase the market foolishly, or throw prudent disciplined analysis out the window.

I would say the board game is far better at learning the concepts and also creating opportunities to discuss things with you other players.

A bank REO guy does this every day with people who have hundreds of millions to invest in SFRs.In RE investing, you are looking for the magic triad of circumstances:1) Motivated seller - NEEDS to sell ASAP2) Distressed property - will not sell on retail market until it's repaired3) High equity - this gives them the ability to negotiate on price down to where you MUST be if this is a business and not a charity ;-)If all three of those do not exist, the deal could be elusive and you could waste a huge amount of time chasing it.Oh, and the house MUST NOT BE LISTED.

The appreciation players stay out here and flippers, but even the flipping model can be hard because it's high capital flipping. 

thanks---did you try major banks like Citi , Chase , hsmc...or mostly credit unions?

No offense to any of the people contributing, but this is feeling like a dog chasing his own tail without some third party out there able and willing to service these notes at a reasonable cost that will allow the investor to be D/F compliant. 

It is in no way in the pm co's best interest spending resources chasing rent every month.  

Consistency will be a big player here and I need to be sure I am fully capable of handling that campaign. 

In a competitive market like we are in today, brokers will ask to see proof of funds, transaction history, industry references, etc if they don't already know your firm.Unless you have $10 million liquid in the bank and it's a deal that no one else is chasing, you are going to have to work pretty hard to convince a broker/seller that you can take down the deal.