I'm here on the forum to better understand - how others would navigate a similar scenario.I guess I'm still shopping for the ingredients to determine if there is a 🍞 of bread and if I should even attempt to bake it.

Rental properties are a high CapEx / low cash flow business model by nature.

Naturally after listening to this I was pretty skeptical but came to the conclusion that it makes since. 

The nature of the relationship to me seemed exploitative and it bothered me a great deal. 

Holding investor funds without a clear and reliable process for withdrawal reflects poorly on RAD’s reputation and calls into question the ethical nature of its practices.

AZ is not prone to major natural disasters so investing there is less risky with regard to those types of setbacks.  

I would assume that it should be blocked off with some type of decorative tile or something of that nature.

Just a nature of the game. 

The math is obvious but there's a natural tendency to go for properties you can obtain at a lower basis.

The BP community of course naturally gravitates to fixed rate long-term debt on real assets as probably the safest way to use leverage to build wealth.