Their business model is just like any insurance model.... take in the most $$ and pay out the least... its that simple.Keep reserves and find your owner repair companies to do business with...And it took 6 months and multiple companies and visits to even look at the filter?

I want to run by the biggerpockets world a potential new model I’m working on and I want to be clear this is not intended for self-promotional purposes or necessarily even something I will enact (i’m not even totally clear on the legally of this) but something I want feedback on and also to spark a discussion of alternative agent models.

Family relocating or I'm doing research now to explore the rent by the room model

For instance, they're opposites in terms of liquidity, physicality, age of the business model, volatility, etc., etc.  ...and, my impression is that they're also opposites in terms of the mindsets of the investors (e.g.; many RE investors have comparatively longer time horizons, and I would assume that most RE investors have a lower tolerance for risk).I'm a RE investor, and don't have any crypto, but I have plenty of friends who hold a lot of crypto, and we've discussed crypto endlessly...At the risk of sounding like a luddite, even after years of discussions and reading countless articles, I still don't feel like I have a good understanding of crypto.  ...and frankly, I'm skeptical of people who claim to have a thorough understanding of it (yet, there are no shortage of self-proclaimed "experts" who describe crypto with the confidence of someone predicting a sunrise!)

In my area, I've found this to be the best model (at least up until this point).

I know Redfin loves this since this is part of their model. 

I'm happy to help you model it out as I'm interested in what the analysis will tell us but I need some more info.

Some people respond that they have "plans" to build, but I find that a large percentage of the people I'm calling / texting have had "plans" to build for over 10 years .... my goal is to just keep these leads warm so that when they are ready to let go of the property they think of me first.Part of the issue with the idea of "casting a wide net" is that we have pretty specific neighborhoods and criteriafor what will work with our business model.

And although @Michael Plaks makes a great case about tenant destruction (he doesn't trust anyone :), if your model was a short-term rental you won't have nearly as much wear and tear I would imagine. 

You have so many upsides to RE investing like depreciation/tax advantages, appreciation, different business models you can run (str, MTR, ltr), long term appreciation.