There is so much space and so many affordable sfrs that it's difficult to understand why a retail buyer would want one.

If a deal is so tight that an investor buyer is worried about the average 2.5% a buyer broker is getting paid these days, he should find another deal.

I am yet to see a bank "go out of their way to advertise houses correctly, at the correct listing price".Mostly banks advertise for what they are owed, which is nearly always up to double the current value.After many weeks/months of being ignored because the price is so ridiculous they eventually sell it at fair market value which the market dictates.

It is so important to find the right management company and more importantly, a company that is in business for the investors and not because they are charging investors.

So, living with someone twice my age is different than having a tenant of whatever age.Still, I don't care all that much how old a roommate is, so long as they match up.

It's like a residential broker that is a friend of mine that has been doing loans for almost 20 years says " On the residential investor 50,000 loans the deal is so small I will only make about 250 bucks on it" so he only does those deals when nothing else is happening.

The reason wholesale deals, just obtaining a contract and assigning to another real buyer is so popular is that there is a very low cost of entry.

That is so unfair.

Thank you, it does seem like that.I'm wondering why it is so bad to buy into that, if the price is right and there is no shortage of people who don't need financing.

The rent/buy ratio is so absurdly skewed, that just some minor mean reversion will generate significant capital appreciation.