Value on a property often has to do with location and popularity aka demand of buyers.

For many folks living in high priced areas where small investors are completely priced out of REI, our choices are:1) stay out of REI completely2) invest in notes or HML3) invest out of state While I appreciate & give great weight to the advice of seasoned investors like Jon Holdman who caution against investing out of state, I think it can still be highly profitable as long as one fully understands the risks and plans for contingencies.

Colorado had become very popular with the entire U.S. and people around the world.

Sec 506 is popular.

Podcasts seem to be pretty popular and helpful resources, BP has their own and I have listened to several and enjoyed them all.

I would focus on a few that are popular rental areas.

If I had lots of apartments nearby, I'd advertise large fenced backyard, well-trained family dogs considered, breed restrictions in place but no weight limits, and just plan on replacing the flooring with more pet-friendly material later on as you're likely to have this issue at every turnover.

Sometimes 1 beds are more popular in college towns etc. so there are exceptions.

A verbal agreement to lower the price will have no weight when a written contract executed at approximately the same time exists.

Good wholesalers provide a valuable service and are worth their weight in gold, but these wannabes are not only wasting your time and money (you have to make mortgage payments, taxes, insurance while your property is tied up), but they could potentially wreck someone's credit and cost them a lot of money and grief if the seller blindly entered a sub2 deal with them.