They are billed as "a scientific approach to single-family rentals" and use "institutional grade property management," which usually means they are a tech company in real estate and likely either don't have the existing property management relationships in each area or you chose an area where they don't have enough units through Roofstock for the PM they chose to care.

I haven’t used them yet but Universal Settlement Services is an investor friendly title company in the state college/altoona area.

When your interviewing companies I'd suggest to ask about maintenance, and even talk with leasing agent as well. 

Is this a decent idea?  

New companies like Intel, Amazon, and Google are also investing here.

You can get a decent cruiser bike at Walmart for $150.

@Kieran Collings - I'm an investor, flipper, and own and run a local property management company.  

I offered to buy the property from the $28B foreign company which kept them from having to tear down the buildings to mitigate the vagrant problem and also from their obligation to pay the rail road for the long term lease.

The other quesiton i have is if private equity is starting to get involved in this market, companies like Apollo & Carlyle, does that change your feelings about getting involved in the space?

Meanwhile, our current President is shuffling communist funds through shell companies.