Very few truly reap the benefits of such an outfit as far as the underlying operations go.

Outfitted two houses for under 1k.

Kindness and humility and coffee and donuts and cute outfits always help.

Even if you go with a "reputable" outfit to support you, the reality is that you will own a very small piece of mindshare.

We outfit our cabins with the luxuries folks are used to back home, plus some extras for novelty and entertainment.Generally, we stick with full-grain leather in the seating areas. 

Local turnkey outfits advertising properties in terrible neighborhoods for 2x or 3x their value. 

And you have to be cautious that the applicant isn't providing the contact info of a fake credential verification outfit.

Not to say the podcasts aren't very useful, but they seem to be a very new outfit that only accepts cash investments because they don't like the 'red tape' of working with  banks (aka appraisals etc) so I'd read up on people's actual experiences before pursuing that specific avenue.Of course, being the CEO of a full-service turnkey provider in Birmingham, AL, I obviously think TK is an amazing RE investment and perfect for first-timers because, as Ken correctly noted, it takes the emotion and hassle out of it.

Big Forestry outfit they then sent one of their guys to Mexico city to meet with a top flight lawyer there and it turned out 10k later to be a total scam..

I'd imagine the company you are working with that put you on a waiting list has a very small outfit in the Cleveland market.