I've had my consultation call, but I was bothered by the lack of follow-up on their end.

If you are just a warm body with 80k and no applicable skillset, I wouldn't bother.

If it does not make sense don't bother.....

I don't know who Tom is but if you're paying more than a few hundred dollars for it I wouldn't bother.

Sometimes I get people asking for a walk-thru, and most of the time my units are full and I don't want to bother.

At the time my rate was like 4% and now it’s 10% so agreed with everyone else I wouldn’t do it for long term stuff, but then again I know people who do and it doesn’t seem to bother them so I guess it’s more how comfortable you feel. 

And if the sponsor truly can't be bothered to answer your questions when they should be on best behavior and are most financially incentivized to do it (when trying to get your money), then they will have even less incentivized to do it, in the future, when there are problems and you have difficult questions to ask them.So personally I would consider that a red flag and move on to a sponsor who communicates reliably and on a timely basis.

- Having minor maintenance taken care of at no cost - Regular cleanings and maintenance so small issues don't become big issues- A hands off tenant who never bothers the landlord- A property maintained in new condition because it's in the tenant's interestI used to do primarily rental arbitrage but shifted to STR/MTR property management.

That's what bothers me.

I don't bother myself with how many "friends" I have, I talk to about 30 people a day, sometimes up to a few hundred outside of my family.