While they make a lot of money on your extensions (assuming they'll give you more than one), it also shows them you're amateur hour if you can't confidently anticipate the scope of work.

More than likely they only had it posted to 1-2 STR websites, the pics were vanilla or amateur hour, etc.

A single bad tenant can cost an amateur Landlord a year of rental income without batting an eye.

The argument that "I have a good tenant and do not want to raise the rent too high for fear of losing them" attitude is amateur thinking at best. 

Even though I've bought several rental properties over the years, I always feel like an amateur when I first look at a deal and try to pull comps.

You are an amateur and shouldn't charge the same as a professional.

Although it appears we have a great community here with Bigger Pockets, the hands-on approach for us amateurs could go a long way to avoiding some costly pitfalls.

I spent 10 years in the military moving quite often and every professional or amateur management company does it better than OmniKey.

I'm going to get a lot of push-back on that statement as a lot of people that lend on here don't have licenses, but you really have to make sure they are not amateurs.

Colorado is very lenient, and Florida is in between.I know this is well-intentioned, but rather than play amateur attorney, anyone loaning money or participating in owner financing must really speak to a qualified lending attorney in their specific state.