This creates an initial negative equity position that consumes the initial cash flow, sometimes for many years.

As a few have mentioned, the best way would be to call the listing agents directly, but depending on how much time you want to dedicate, setting and going on multiple appointments with different people could prove to be time-consuming. 

This negative position can consume years of cash flow to recover.

Is just about consumer protection act.. their model was get CA investor to put up the money.. then sell to non English speaker on terms.. and rinse repeat.. 

Finding, developing and maintaining a 'brand' is hard and time consuming work.Let me turn the question around; As a seller, why should someone pick one agent over another.

Therefore, recent consumer sentiment has been terrible.I rarely listen to news anyway because most of it is noise.

There is an inherent difference between people who expect, and people who appreciate.On the flip side, there are only so many hours in a day, and when someone constantly asking for advice becomes so time consuming that it takes away from my own business activities, then I think it's quite reasonable to expect that I be compensated for my time. 

I do not believe I am RentRedi's target consumer as I have more needs than others and that has been true for other business relationships I tried to build in my time, but I hate when things have to end on sour notes and the fact that it took publicly criticizing the service to get attention is more than disappointing on RentRedi's part as a service business.

I have other existing consumer products.So I would outfit the RV with Solar and Starlink to provide power and internet at all times. 

I won’t try to tell you what to do other than if there’s certain properties that just consume way more energy you might consider 1031ing them into slightly larger properties where you could get better economies of scale for your time and expenses.