Contractors spend hours putting together Bid Proposals and it's not fair to them if you waste their time by 'shopping' and price matching with other Contractors.If you 'bid shop' Contractor's numbers you are going to get a bad reputation, and you will have a hard time finding Contractors to bid your projects.Sure, you may save a few dollars upfront, but ultimately you are going to p*ss off a lot of contractors and potentially hurt your business long-term.

This provider, in addition to 3x rent as qualifying income, they also look at the budget, credit, and spending patterns of the prospect tenant and see their DTI ratio as a contributing factor.

What if you want to downsize and no longer want to deal with additional employees because you want to spend more time with the family?

You can spend a ton of time learning to deal with it or hand it off to petscreening.com and let them do all the work for free.

"Real Household Income" and "Real Median Rents" spread across the entire country doesn't capture the intricacies of local markets, of rising income in the SF Bay Area (or Portland, OR, etc.) driving higher investment and rent.However, the point remains.

My reasoning is, even though I am "the landlord", my time is a resource that I leverage each day to provide income for my household. 

So if somebody touts himself all over podcasts and the internet as an experienced operator across several large MF properties despite only having raised capital for those deals, doesn't he seem like an experienced operator to anybody spending 30+ seconds to research that person?

If you want to spend that time chasing deals to make you possibly $20,000 an hour - that is where the gold is.  

I prefer the ones that need a little bit of work as you can often get a better deal, but if you're going to get a loan - usually 25% down, you can actually end up spending more actual cash this way.  25% down, plus some rehab instead of 25% down with no rehab, but a higher PP. 

Spend it, Jim, spend it!