On the other hand I want to make absolutely sure that the turnkey provider I work with is reliable and trustworthy.The benefit of not being tied down to a specific area is of course that the choices are numerous.

Undoubtedly if you listen to the podcasts you'll hear about how people found success by using different methods.

My background is that I've owned over 2000 homes and numerous apartments in Denver, Memphis and Florida.

I have done Greg's method and just told them how it would be and they shut down.

@Daniel Monk Well for starters I put 15% down, strictly running off the 1% method.

Welcome to BiggerPockets Andrew, but I would stress that real estate investment is a method of getting rich slowly.

I would like to hear from other real estate agents and brokers what methods have worked for them when marketing a rental property for another investor/landlord.

St Louis is an extremely affordable market and there are numerous opportunists for investment.

Usually going back to an older sale is better than considering a property further away, a sale 10 months ago would be better than a comp 5 miles away with all other things being equal.You can find the way comps are viewed on the Appraisal Institute's web site.As you'll see there, the appraisal methods used in the market with comps is a process of deducting or adding to a sale price of the comp based on how the subject compares to the sold comp.

Please feel free to share you methods and techniques here.