Also you do need time to be active, and some people do not have time if you are raising a family and have a W2 (but I believe you can still make time, but it is not easy). 

I also funded renovation of both throughout this transaction and significantly improved the property/raised the rent to market.

Born & Raised in Detroit, looking for a fix and flip in Detroit (C Neighborhoods)

Trying to raise my prices in VRBO around some football games.

However there are also those tenants that I see are getting to raise their kids in a much safer/nicer neighborhood than if they didn't have it; and I have seen some people be able to move up in their career and their portion of rent get higher and higher, over the years, until they got off sec 8.

Zelle is pretty strict and I was never able to get it to raise limits enough for me to receive even a single payment.

Partnered with a friend and raised $250K for down payment and raised the rest through hard money.

(my house was underwater completely except for the crest of the roof) ALso, the city wasn't letting anyone back on the island (even owners) for like 14ish days (I forget the exact number), so ALL of the non-raised houses were full of mold by time anyone was allowed to go in and start doing things. 

Obviously, lowering the fee and raising the rate is an option but that feels a little bit like spinning my wheels.At some point, if I'm dropping my rates far enough to compensate for a high cleaning fee, we get into the conversation of "is it even worth it to rent it at this rate and risk property damage, 4 star review, etc".

Tied to this is the fact that it is very hard for us to make informed decisions about making purchases in markets we are unfamiliar with, given the normal ebb and flow of real estate activity.That said, I am not raising this primarily to criticize these companies, but rather to focus on the practical effect of what they leave out.