Life it too short to teach people that won't follow through...or to spend money learning stuff that you won't apply.

Now consider this: all the groups people are spending fortunes to target—foreclosures, absentee owners, probate leads, tax liens—what do they have in common?

To protect yourself, make sure you have a great property for STR. 

Only spend 2 hours on it.  

Basically, flip partnerships suck unless you spend a long time being clear about the roles and payouts, etc.

Instead of being transparent about it, you had me spend a bunch of money on things I shouldn't have since there was no intent on closing the deal.

Look at median household incomes, look at market economy base and diversification, look at what's being done to protect and grow economic performance, just run the #'s and the message should be crystal clear. 

We discuss spending, net worth, and future investing goals with the cash.

This gives much better diversification protection across geographies, asset types, strategies, investment subclasses etc. versus putting all the eggs into one basket.The downside is that it's not for everyone, and a person has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.

And, the longer you wait to act, the longer the squatter stays - and even gains some legal protections to stay while your waiting on a slow court system to act on an eviction.