If it "worked" there would be more success than failures, but there are FAR more failures than successes, so how can you be ok with telling people or advising people to do it when you know DARN well that every 1000 people you tell to do it, 999 will fail.

I also do not blame the carls for anyone’s STR failures.  

Despite the failures of other national full-service Mexican chains like Chi-Chi's, Darden's CEO Rick Cardenas is confident in Chuy's potential.

I'm a fan of co-hosting pretty strongly over arbitrage, but I am trying to hear stories of success (or failure) on both sides.

Its a game of failure... its a numbers game.

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What was your failure in flipping?

Having both of these increases risk of failure significantly.

RARELY.Fact 2:If you need to send 3000+ mailers to people on this lists to get one deal, it means 2999 people of the 3000 you spend money on to chase, are not interested, not motivated, and thus the wrong audience.That is a 99.97% failure rate. 

It is harder to do the above when you are trying to buy a D class rental with the aid of section 8, you just set yourself up for failure.