If you recommend one over the other do you have brands or types you recommend?

There is a relationship team sourcing deals, then due diligence teams to perform DD, and ultimately investment committee meetings and sign off.  

(I am getting pretty tired myself sounding like a broken record).Direct mail marketing works SO poorly, you need to send THOUSANDS of mailers, AND you need to send these thousands of mailers SEVERAL times to get a deal.So:BECAUSE the performance is SO low you need to send thousands to COMPENSATE for its poor performance AND hit the receivers several times BECAUSE the performance is so low to get a deal.Conclusion: "Direct mail marketing works"WHAT THE HECK?!

You haven't even closed yet so how can you assess its future performance as profitable or not.

For example, you can show the services you performed and the approximate number of hours spent by using an appointment book, calendar, or narrative summary.Doesn’t even need to be contemporaneous logs. 

While lower-income tenants are the largest group to be evicted, residents of brand new subdivisions where townhouses rent for nearly $3,000 a month have also heard the constable’s knock.

.--- Tactic 2: Focus on Fundamentals: Zell emphasized cash flow and property performance over speculation.--- Tactic 3: Diversification: He invested across various real estate sectors, reducing risk.2.

Discuss COC return, run a financial analysis for him and a performance chart showing the ROR after multiple properties have been acquired and cashed-out... good luck.

In our market, you can self manage, with all the associated work, and out perform the LTR income.  

If there's a hole, it may be a red flag.b) sensitivity analysis: I examine all the assumptions, and make sure I can live with the worst case scenarios.c) "Stall and see": if they are getting money over multiple years, and there is no penalty for investing later, I would usually wait so I get some real performance data, versus having to look at theoretical pro forma information.d) Recession stress test: I will not invest in anything, until I subject it to recession level stress and see if I can live with the result.