Surrounding yourself with a team brings some risk, but the risk is on your ability to judge people and processes. 

If you have the ability to house hack that is where I would start.

And he has a great ability to only attack the problems which will be most impactful. 

These are consultants fully vetted for their knowledge, analytical ability, research capacity, and contacts.  

The POA gave us the ability to list it.

Active investors absolutely have ability for higher returns, but at some point it does impact your primary job earning power. 

Sometimes the tenant just doesn't know about them or their situation limits their ability to apply.

The other disappointment as a prospective investor in PPR is that his book could not be more loving of leverage and the ability to maximize returns by using OPM.

Plus new folks do a very poor job of screening the buyer for Ability To Repay (ATR) which involves pulling full doc and calculating the borrowers DTI, honest income, honest debt payments, prior debt payment histor (FICO) etc etc.Plus shockingly (or shocking to sellers) if you bought this investment house, fixed it, then are selling with financing you are selling "inventory" and y9ou owe taxes on the gain in the year of sale, you are NOT able to use installment sale to spread out paying taxes. 

You need to have the ability to make changes on-the-fly,  the ability to cut your losses in an instant, and the power to make all critical decisions that will make the deal perform they way you want and not the way some unscrupulous syndicator wants.