It amazes me nowadays how people will throw money into a market and not spend any time in it(pre purchase) then wonder why it didn't work out.we literally purchased our second stilt house by walking up our stairway and the owner (of our now second str there) was walking up there stairs and we struck up a conversation and purchased it off market.My advice, allocate some of your investment funds to knock on doors and hang in the area you buying- its priceless.

Lot's of people use the term UpState, and since I've got my BP alerts set up... it isn't solely used by New York Upstaters... apparently lots of different states like to throw around 'upstate'  Anyway, I digress.  

Throw in a vanity and put up a mirror.

Contract requires diligent effort from buyer but otherwise doesn't specify if they need to try and close the sale or can just throw their hands up at the low appraisal. 

Guarantee of their work.No one likes their PM, but probably not a place to go cheap....I think often smaller and local is better than big and broad for PM.None of this is a reflection of the company you asked about....I don't know much of anything about them...

It is cheap. 

If you have a low interest rate on your primary mortgage, that's cheap money and low cost of capital.

Properties are super cheap in Flint for a reason!

I looked for months, and looked at SFH, apts, houses on leased land, mobiles homes and everything that was cheap because I had so little money and had just started a new entry level job 9 months earlier. 

They could get a risk free return by investing in T-bills, so the delta between that RFR and what you're offering needs to be rewarding enough for them to pursue it.As for the 2nd part of your question, that really is a mystery :)The low interest rate environment always leads to these folks misleading people and mismatching deal operations, and sometimes even defaulting on the property and losing it altogether.Probably because a bunch of these syndicators want to be cool Instagram/TikTok influencers and throw up their arms and talk about how many doors they own, but what do I know lol.