I struggle with podcasts because they show a slice but not usually a start-to-finish how-to and you could invest countless hours (like I did) listening to many podcasts to piece things together.

The guy rolls back the grass or vines and slices with a machete.  

A spokesperson argued their software only affects a small slice of the market and isn’t solely to blame for high rents.

Its a lot of work but anyway you slice it a management company is going to cost you 10% of gross rents which could easily be 100% of your net profits.

Whatever way you slice it, you're going to learn a lot from your first rental.

But with my head held high gone was all the normal trappings of RE success being served as a big slice of humble pie :(.

Everyone has the best thing since sliced bread.

They act like the product or service in question is the greatest discovery since sliced bread,; that nobody else offers anything as good, and nobody else has thought of it.  

Long story short.. they inflated rent projections, sliced corners on property management, and almost left him holding the bag when the actual numbers came in.Vetting a syndicate means getting cozy with the sponsor’s track record, verifying their underwriting approach, and understanding whether they’ve handled rough waters before.

talking to the Bank its going to be far and few between that the mortgages these folks are taking sub to is still owned or controlled by the "Bank" the loans were sold within months of origination and maybe MERS has it ( sliced and diced) and for sure your dealing with a servicer.. who is not going to negotiate one bit.. now if you happen to have a sub to with a portfolio lender and you can actually talk to someone who is a decision maker thats different but I submit those loans will be a small fraction of the deals being done.