Think of all those captive leads sitting at your table every day.  

Of course you would have said it much more captivating :)

At the same time I think I would look long and hard at Milwaukee, Madison, and Grand Rapids before choosing Minneapolis.Madison has a captive audience with student housing needs near the campus and downtown.  

When banks stop lending to other banks, because they cannot determine with any level of confidence which assets on balance sheets are really worth something, and how much, OK that is not a cyclical market correction -- that is a broken market system.There was a time in late 2008 when some big names like CAT and Deere and Honda and Toyota and others like them were unable to obtain debt funding for their financial services captives for a period of several weeks. 

Looking for advice/knowledge on Captive portals for capturing email address' of AirBnB / VRBO guests that use your wifi.

Think about it it is like dealing with a captive financial advisor that can only refer you to buy the "in-house securities" only.

Regarding insurance income, your gf's brother in law was probably a captive agent, meaning he only sells for one company (NW Mutual), I'm independent, so I can represent multiple companies & get higher commissions based on production.

As you know I have been a principal in three finance companies, one a related or captive finance company, and the other two "outside" finance companies.

It really developed into a system where it was a real estate operation, that utilized a franchisee system to direct pipeline clients, and hold them captive, very captive. 

I advocate finding one that will do it willingly without binding you to a contract that says that you will pay them no matter how you find a home - in most of those situations, I see captive Buyers that receive bad customer service.