The method is simply different.

Other areas were your relying on Wells that are very expensive and or you pay 15k for a dry hole.. etc etc. there is basic due diligence that needs to be done and relying on someone else to do that for you is frankly foolish.

Credit checks, collateral, and other methods of ensuring repayment are largely up to you, but are generally recommended.

While the market is stalling a little my wife and I are considering the "Shred Method" to pay off some of these properties faster.

Do people use other methods than this? 

I used David Greene's remote investing method.

I have been running the numbers for all different strategies (rent by the bedroom, BRRRR method, etc.)

I of course want to avoid this, and was wondering the best method/ information i needed to avoid this stereotype.

I like things cut and dry so there's no opportunity for misinterpretation of who is covering what.

Great book that talks about investing in a different light, not giving you strategies but looking at it from the reader's relationship with money and how their psychology plays into their preferred methods of investingGino