Back then, prices were much better, and turnkey marketers could make a decent fee.As prices increased, many turnkey providers had to move to less desirable areas (I know people are always looking blame other people but in reality blame it on yourself for being the investors that picked bad areas and did not do due-diligence and buy assets where the numbers worked with 10-20% economic vacancy), and now that gap has essentially disappeared.

Once you rehab it and maybe put $50k of "sweat equity into it", it would be worth $200k, but they would sell it to you for $150k seller financing after the down payment.So, on the surface it sounds great because you aren't coming out of pocket, but in reality if you have the means to close the deal in cash or with any kind of financing like a hard money loan you would likely be better off. 

Reality is today its not very helpful for me as a real estate investor.

The reality is the opposite - if it's not in writing then the PMC doesn't have to provide the service or can charge extra for it!

Though it doesn't make sense, it's the reality today.

But a dose of reality is needed.   

@Arron Paulino You need to come out of theory and into reality. 

@Scott TrenchPeople thought last year we reached the peak but reality is we are just scratching the surface as many deals that were in trouble were hoping for rates to come down have not - so it’s gonna get worse before it gets betterThis one seems sketch to me honestly as if original poster is reading this why wait four years ?

Prior landlord info doesn’t match reality.  

And truth and reality have absolutely no room in their world