Door knocking, driving for dollars, and cold outreach all sound effective (and they can work), but the gurus often leave out the part about how time and resource intensive they really are.Before diving deeper into this grind, I’d suggest asking yourself: What’s your actual end goal?

I'd be interested in whether you know of any areas or builders that you can say have actually sold for discounts? 

You know - keep doing the same unsuccessful thing, keep getting the same disappointing results - don’t accept advice from anyone who is actually successful and experienced - somehow find the one person least likely to provide competent counsel, pay big $ for bad advice from someone with limited experience and a large bias disguised as a “mentorship”.  

@Steve Balinski as your finding there is a big difference between perception of how things are, and the reality of how they actually are. 

The dad wants a full deposit return minus the cleaning fee, which is not even connected to reality.

I've also dealt with many "investor agents" that have referred me to a property saying it was a great steal in a great up in coming neighborhood which in reality was a terrible neighborhood with maybe 2 nice gentrified houses on the street, yet homeless still walking around all times of day, houses being squat in, homes being broken into during rehabs, etc.

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Dave Ramsey is against borrowing but the reality is you will have to utilize leverage.

Charge: actual costs, no markupRepairs: standard RentReady jobs, coordinating replacement HWH, painting, replacing a window/door, etc.Again, we categorize it by dollar amount, so starts from Maintenance Limit to $x.Charge: actual costs, plus markup percentageRenovations: major RentReady jobs where tenants trashed the property, rehabs, etc.Starts from our Repair Limit.Charge: actual costs, plus markup percentage higher than that we charge for Repairs.- Every owner wants a "volume" discount on these jobs until we explain these jobs typically require several contractors and coordinating timelines can be a nightmare.

While it is possible that some construction gets abandoned, the reality is that most projected supply will be completed, and will immediately get absorbed by the market.