Now, if you are an active investor, you can enhance your returns, but the reality is you have to spend a lot of time and effort to get those returns.

Reality check: when structured for maximum cash accumulation, the agent makes very little off of the purchase.

Because this is the attitude, but not the reality, of the industry. 

Until you accept that reality, nothing will change.

Crimes data, etc. does not come even close to telling the real story about reality on the ground.

Might not want to go with that particular platform...https://www.fastcompany.com/90891909/the-dark-reality-of-the...House share/rent by room is not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination...Just know what you are getting yourself into

You may see it on paper, but the reality is it's going vanish.If you're comfortable house hacking, probably a better choice.

HIGHLY recommend you STOP watching S8 YouTube videos and spend more time here reading posts about S8 to learn reality not hype.

The reality for me is that I have little capital to start and it hasn't helped watching a million gurus on social media talk about the "ease" of utilizing OPMs.

Bigger Pockets Real Estate rookie podcast posted a great episode in the last week or so where they interview a CPA and get their opinion of when a rookie should get a CPAI think a lot of rookie investors (myself included) worry and focus too much on setting up LLCs, getting the taxes lined up etc ... when in reality we need to get a couple deals under our belt and then we can start figuring out the rest.