Reason #1:  If you're not careful even a bad lawyer can get it turned into a purchase, with all of the rent credited to the purchase. 

And yeah Marquette, MI is an appreciating market and a college town where everyone complains about increasing rents (and their bad landlords).Hopefully I can still find a few properties that can cash flow anything, no matter how small, with zero down but I'll have to see if they'll pass VA inspection too.

I didn't think it is necessarily a bad thing, just is more of a sales strategy than anything else.why do you think that the concept of investing in real estate with 0 money is an "idea" instead of a real thing. 

This is bad from an inflation standpoint.

The initial video that I took of the home had 510k views on Tiktok because of how much stuff was left and how bad of shape the home was in.

If it's a bad location, then I wouldn't do it. 

Agents like the one who sold you this property give us all a bad reputation.

You should see some of the houses I've rehabbed or walked. ya thats maybe a 5 on a scale of 6.. the really bad ones you need a resperator to go into them.. and people worry about a little dab of mold these folks live in a petri dish.

This particular property that I looked at is managed by a PM company and it has bad reviews especially for cleanliness.

If you fully understand the process, the potential for profit can be considerable but if you do not, it can be bad - real bad.