The reasons are that investors are seen as the greedy people with pockets full of money, and then still demand your rent on the first and charge you late fees when appropriate and take your deposit when you leave a pig sty behind.

I am a retired USAF officer/pilot, currently working (way too hard) as a Sales Engineer in the oil and gas business and stock options trader.  

Most PM's get greedy here and over charge.

That's why I've been leaning towards being aggressive with this project but I wanted to post on here to make sure I'm not just being a greedy A-hole!

There are others who say it's a good time to buy when it is easy to find money for deals, as it is right now.Then, there are some people who look at the historically low cap rates and historically high interest in real estate investing and remember Warren Buffett's admonition to "be fearful when others are greedy."

It is not a fair comparison when comparing a small landlord with a few houses to a day trader with years of experience.

Most of you are too greedy for a deal and you manipulate the numbers to make it sound like a deal.

That quest ended me reading Flash Boys, books of Barton Biggs, Reminiscences of a Stock Market Operator, books of Tony Robbins Market Wizards, Tower of BASEL, tRADING IN THE ZONE, The Millionaire Mind, think and grow rich, youtube movies of "Wall Street", Boiler Room, Enron, Epic Trader, Meltdown, Million Dollar Trader, Barbarians at the gate, Margin Call, Rogue Trader, Floored, The Big Short, Last Days of Lehman & you name it.

If you are greedy, you can admin fee the whole interest rate and with it being as apparently simple as it is, that's an easy 15$ for half an hour, or 30$ an hour.

Purchasing land in the path of progress is generally a long-term greedy play and many developers learn to "land bank" using various techniques to generate some cash flow on what is really a cash drain until you put the project in service.