I monitor the Houston forum, so I have read many of your posts - The primary theme I see in your posts is that you generously offer your time and expertise to new investors and allow a group of new or wannabe investors the opportunity to walk your flips and tag along with you while you are looking for or working on a project - very generous of you - I see that you were able to give an amazing opportunity to a new investor when she may have not had the confidence to move forward on her own without your guidance - I am a fan of collaborating with other investors when you do not have the funds to complete a project on your own ... it can be a win/win opportunity that otherwise would have to be passed up ......However, when I read the details in this post, a few things come to mind - it seems that you used very little of your own money ...$5,000?

The risk is worth the reward (at work we call it Operational Risk Management).

Hey all, I'm in the Charleston, SC area and I've got a couple of solid rental properties under my belt and I'm looking to expand my expertise. 

I live in the Normal Station neighborhood and own two rentals in this neighborhood as well, so this is the area of my greatest expertise.

After getting an MBA from SFSU, I found myself in sales, now sharing my expertise as a sales trainer for a SaaS company in Mountain View, CA.

I feel like the risk/ reward is best in the lower middle, stereotypical "blue collar" tenant in my market. 

The on-boarding alone is another full time job.As Julie McCoy pointed out, the advantages (marketing, payments, time input, expertise, insurance, legal, website creation/maintenance, SEO, reach) currently far exceed the dependency disadvantages of OTRs.For all that value and time savings, I wouldn’t even bother too much circumventing their communication system to deal outside their box.

Most transactional inspectors, including HUD inspectors only have a certain area of expertise-- they are not building inspectors in the same way or Code Enforcement Officers.

He put in the capital and I put in the expertise and the work.

We deploy, we move constantly, we have important time consuming (and rewarding) careers.