Is it realistic to ask for and expect to get at least 2 landlord references and 2 tenant references (current clients) if I am a " small time" landlord with one property, not multiple units?

Realistically, to make the business work, they are hoping all the people who are using the "free services" to eventually go into banking where they can collect fees for anything bank related.

Well if you ran realistic conservative numbers for maintenance, capex, vacancy rates, rental income, etc then you don't really need cash flow do you?

Low cost + high rent/value ratio.My market of Middle TN doesn't have any livable property for that price and the 1% rule isn't very realistic. 

However, in order to do this effectively, you have to have knowledge, experience, resources, and cash reserves in case things don't go exactly as planned.Hopefully this post was helpful to you in seeing a realistic example of how to purchase real estate without using your own money.

It's a good practice to overestimate costs and underestimate after-repair values (ARV) to keep your expectations realistic.

Now I realize that not all situations will go exactly as planned but it is important to have a realistic plan from the beginning based on past results.Ivan, Hopefully this post was helpful to you in that it helped you consider different options based on your personal situation and real estate investing goals.

That is just not realistic in this current market.So in my opinion it's important to expose yourself to a large number of deals, so you can develop an intuitive sense of what's reasonable and what's not (and quickly discard the ones that aren't).And it's true that there is no way to 100% protect from fraud (and not just in passive real estate investments but even in public stocks etc.).

I'm not sure if they can realistically pass that liability off to you simply by stating it in their contract.

Is the 25% from LPs realistic based on today's market?