But yes, likely less than 5% of them will go on to purchase more than 10 properties, and of that cohort, some fraction will not actually achieve the wealth and freedom that they seek. 

It’s only 1000’s of homes, a tiny fraction of the market. 

A lot of folks on these forums have scratched and clawed there way to success without even having had a fraction of that kind of financial head start.

Why sell to a big corp, when you've got 15 other warm-blooded families trying to buy your house from you.Interesting reading the original Bloomberg article, and you can see ReAlpha intends to fractionalize ownership of these SFR's turned STR's... almost like a distributed REIT using STR's... 

It's a bank set up by bankers for bankers.The Meeting at Jekyll Islandhttps://www.federalreservehist...And a rational public wouldn't allow "fractional reserve banking".We've only gotten away with it since oil was pegged to the dollar.That's the simple part.

Heheheheheh44 heirs and they have fractional shares,this real estate agent said there are no caresI'd be the first to wish him welland them to him this is what I would tell."

I personally no longer buy properties directly, but invest small amounts ($5-10K) in fractional real estate syndications.

But even if your STR projections are too high, you will generate some money, so your actual worst case scenario is that you have to chip in a fraction of that.In that case the property becomes your piggybank, it's like a forced savings account.

I have outsourced the marketing, SEO, PPC, Facebook over the years, and What I learned is that nobody will take care of that like you do.So What I did, I hired a VA with some experience and bought some courses from reputable experts in those fields, and he learned how to do it and got results for a fraction of the price.The other option is to get an expert and teach your team how to do it, but I will never outsource that anymore, I will keep in in-house.

An IRA is not the place to take these risks considering the time value of this tax-free or tax-deferred money.The good news is that CA allows fractionalized loans without the need for the security exemption required in most other states.