Once I did get someone to talk with me, details and information were often lacking, or outright wrong.

You have certain resources, but lack others.  

While a single stall garage might be only a ~10k adjustment on an appraisal depending on your local market, the lack of garage can kill market value which is harder to predict.

I will admit it's lacking a few features I would really like, but it does the IMPORTANT stuff well!

If often more that they are abandanoning the property to the government because there is some type of constraint, i.e. there is a street light oddly placed in the middle front part of the parcel, there is a creek or wash (which means environmental permits would be needed), there is lack of true legal access, zoning problems, etc. 

When I hear how much people are spending on education with gurus or even 'local' coaches, it breaks my heart--that money could've been a downpayment on a house.If one is committing to spending tens of thousands of dollars whether upfront or splitting a minimum amount of deals, it's one of the worst mistakes that you can make in my opinion...In a world where information is at our fingertips and there is a blueprint that exists for everything, you'd be better off investing in courses on overcoming fear of change, lack of motivation, etc.

There's a severe lack in proactive support and you're left wondering if they value you at all.

VA I think most want the benefit of zero cash down so thats a bit of a draw back and the inspection is rare so approved for VA wont go through with funding due to lack of inspection.Again I have never bought a house at auction nor am I in the Military so this is just from my research but not tested. 

I didn't think of them like that, more as a new platform but you definitely could be right considering the lack of resources on them.

If you go the brute-force approach (as JD insists), now they're being told they have to make good on your end, despite the fact that your lack of following up and making sure the money got to you for a month contributed to their loss of the second month's loss.