Theyre expensive, but you wont lose your home to foreclosure unless you move out, stop paying taxes/insurance, or fail to maintain it. 

The #1 reason why landlords fail is this:  Failure to manage to the lease (Source: American Apartment Owners' Assn). 

To me these accountability groups mean that I'll have someone to report back to about wins and fails to help with prospective and motivation. 

I view this as more problematic because the concept is so elementary anyone with a pulse can do this and many actually execute on bad investment decisions and and will be in a vulnerable position trying to navigate these liabilities while the coaches collected their fees and have no downside when the real estate investment fails.

Misinformation stating that the guru dropped out of school, was fired from his job, failed in his business startup, but when he discovered” the “secret” of real estate investing, met with almost instantaneous success7.

I want to know that the cosigner can afford the rent on their own if the tenant fails.

I wanted to use the camera footage as evidence in a civil case against the tenant.I was initially told that it would take 2 weeks to get the footage to me, then that blew out to several months, and now finally 6 months later they finally get back to me and tell me the footage doesn't exist, even though the initial report said cameras were activated.That footage would have shown that the tenant was making threats to damage my property (which she made good on).Do I have any recourse on the police for failing to provide the footage on a timely basis?

Failing to plan, is planning to fail. 

As we are working on our first development, which builds out a failed development from '08-09 and then expands into raw acreage beyond that, I am learning so much.

You don't want them to just be financially qualified but you failed to investigate how they treated their past two apartments.