This is mostly because any mention of your company or what you do and bigger pockets deletes your post or comment and says its self promotion.

(Bigger Pockets :)Sharing promotes accountability!

Again, I'm not going to interject my personal political beliefs, but between the bail outs and all the rest following the crash, the problem here is that we SEEM to have sent a VERY mixed message to the big banks about who is ultimately on the hook if they act too irresponsible (the tax payer).

I start with the belief that the 50% rule is too aggressive at low rent markets, about right in most markets, and a bit conservative in high rent markets. 

The first being that the shorter the hold period the higher the IRR and the velocity of money is increased.The second is that the majority of a sponsors compensation comes after a capital event (sale/refi) when they get into the "promote" or carried interest. 

Our only knowledge with Real Estate investing was with my relocations due to promotion or needs of my company (sell our home & buy a new one).  

Never thought to look for potential partners (especially with all the promotion given to hard money lenders---even though hard money isn't the best for rental deals from what I've found).

My belief is you can find better management companies when you scale to larger projects.

It's free to advertise and I believe DC Gov promotes the site.

There are a lot of investors who are going to get hurt and may have already been hurt by the fact they are simply buying the word "turnkey" based on their own understanding and belief and not necessarily any real value of the investment itself.