We have Kool-aid and cookies in the back of the room.

I'd be willing to bet that I get more repeat business from agents than most people (our average DOM is 17 days and we often get properties under contract before they're listed, just from sending an email to agents who know our product), and the reason is that we treat the agents we like VERY well -- this includes bonuses, holiday cards, bagels/cookies for their office at random times, etc.Bonuses in-and-of themselves won't get your houses sold, but what the bonuses represent -- a great relationship where both sides are taken care of financially -- will definitely get your houses sold.Just my $.02...

I'm not an expert and I'm not the smartest person around, but I like to think of myself as above the average cookie.

The units are all the same which make them easy to maintain using a cookie cutter approach.

They are older homes, in a Historic area of Conway, so maybe they have a little bit of character than the cookie cutter houses these days.

Steve Cook I have been similarly concerned, see discussion herehttp://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/56/topics/79566-pay-attention-if-you-are-in-the-real-estate-market

The house I was going to buy was a cookie cut house 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath for 149K.

So, we give up our commission in order to attract short sale deals.And then the extra money we make by representing investor friends of ours covers our license costs (my wife, my project manager and I are all licensed now) and any other marketing that we do (like sending cookies and gifts to all the agents we work with a couple times per year).In the end, we're using all our "extra" money coming from being licensed to cover all our marketing costs and extra costs associated with getting deals, so our rehab profits don't need to be used for this purpose.

He can then place a cookie tray with cat litter on the spot and park on top of it, until he has money to fix it.

So I am in the process of being way more diligent about screening and interviewing potential tenants.I have been getting some cooky and plot twisters this time around.