To keep them will derail the process and ultimately cause you unnecessary headaches and money down the drain.

The pool needs draining, cleaning, and painting.

Well he did it again the next day, so I blocked his number.

If you are calling an area you live in, you always lead with that, "I am a local homebuyer/wholesaler and live only a few blocks away, went to this high school, etc."

Detroit is a block by block city.

Example: once I had a neighbor that was continually blocking the driveway of my rental property with his truck, as the driveways were conjoined.

I like 3/2 brick or block houses (so I don’t have to paint) and are in the sunbelt (Specifically TX and FL markets with growing populations over 100k) because I don’t want pipes freezing, since we started investing while we were overseas.  

Purchase price: $205,000 Cash invested: $175,000 This was quite the rare deal in the South Philly neighborhood of Point Breeze, located a few blocks south of Washington Ave and 22nd St this corner property while only having a lot size of 16x64 was 2000 sqft!

This means every mandatory block is filled in, I have a copy of their photo ID, they provided me with supporting documentation, and they have paid the fee.

Just an example of how these hucksters over-complicate things and steer their students down a circuitous path of constant up-selling that drains their funds without actually helping them meet their investment goals.