This is basically you paying into a bond that will pay damage and lost rents if you are unable to the landlord but this isn't a collective of money pooled together for the common good. 

Hey Nick, I have two duplexes out here in Columbus,Ohio and would love to see if I could get your CORE 4 set up in order to get the best deals and have a great team around you.

Have you had to foreclose on any property and has the investor lost any money?

If you want them to be part of their team, treat them as a team member.If they are bad get rid of them.  

If you want to look for an investor focused brokerage or team in a brokerage I'd recommend looking for meetups in the local area for real estate investors or potentially other investor focused agents in the area, you can likely find both of these with bigger pockets (depending the location).

https://bornstein.law/The reason I decided to reach out to the BiggerPockets community was because of the absolute sh*tshow that working with the Bornstein team has been for me.

This guy is telling me it needs 150k to reno, but I have a really good team of workers that usually keep my costs down substantially and do very good work.

Teaming up with Mexican retail giant El Puerto de Liverpool, the family has made a $3.8 billion bid at $23 per share.Nordstrom, like many department stores, is struggling with changing retail trends, including competition from discount chains and the rise of online shopping.

I want to load out a whole real estate investing team and plan.

He just said "now I don't feel appreciated, let's settle those favors I did you before we proceed any further" and sent me an invoice for $2K for the lost materials + time with the break-ins.Overall, the job seems to be ~80% complete but with poor quality, and I will absolutely need to hire someone else to fix his mistakes.