Those that tend to have a bad experience, is typically tied to poor Sponsor selection or offering selection.

I'm in the greater Boston area and I wasn't able to fully live for free but I was spending about $700 on my unit.

From what I have researched they seem legitimate but the person I am working with is flakey, takes forever to answer questions so I thought I would see if anyone else had experience with this lender.  

@Hunter Duplantis what @Gino Barbaro said is exactly what I was going to suggest.When you have vacancy is the time to experiment and apply your original thesis.I’m not trying to play Monday quarterback here but, you should be highly confident in where the rents should be well in advance of having a vacancy.That being said, after confirming competition rents on websites (I’d also recommend Craigslist and Facebook marketplace), you should be in alignment there.  

Not realizing I was only getting a few hundred a month from it and from a cash-on-cash perspective I'd have been better off buying TBills with the click of a button instead of all the hard work, stress, time, and planning I put into it. 

I'd also be happy to answer any more questions so feel free to reach out via DM.

Hi John,I appreciate your perspective and experience!

You can pre-screen them for free, then run the credit/criminal background only for those that pass your initial review so you're not wasting time.

Thanks for posting of course but feel free to reach out with anything else.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.