But if you go through one of the turnkey marketing/promoter companies, most of those folks are licensed agents and can act [unoffically] in that capacity.

Moderators remove posts that are self-promotional.

I am similarly convinced this has nothing to do with good investment practices, but rather with making sure they don't put themselves in the crosshairs of building regulatory organizations for promoting shoddy DIYing. 

The have the belief that when they call they will succeed2.

I then spent the next 4 years as a concert promoter in San Jose, CA until the reality of living in the Silicon Valley came knocking. 

IMO anyone advocating walking away is promoting harm to the unsuspecting public.

The idea being to promote studying instead partying (potentially decreasing the damage/complaints on the property), incentivizing the tenant to stay throughout their college career (decreasing turnover/vacancy), and developing some additional motivation for a tenant to choose my property over another similar property. 

Thats my personal belief.

Andy asks a lot of thought provoking questions, many of which I had never been asked before and I did my best to give him content filled, relevant answers.There's no other promotion or anything for sale.

Over the years we use 401k to shelter taxable income from our merit and promotion increase.