After they left she called me, they used heat to kill the bedbugs and in doing so they literally melted all of the mini-blinds and the LVP buckled so bad that it all had to be replaced.

Ok @Sam Epperson, ready for me to literally hand away the "secret sauce"?

Maple Grove, STMA, Dayton but Dayton and Rogers are laggards in the school system where STMA and Maple Grove are literally famous school systems. 

Hey Robin, thanks it's actually a creative finance deal with some value add opportunity, so I'm really looking forward to learning a lot from this Nice - sounds like a cool way to start Thank you, Robin, this is my first deal after literally being in tutorial hell(watching many videos trying to learn the strategy) so I'm really excited about this

Plus this is literally your agents job, an agent gets paid to help you with things like this, a co-host can be super valuable but is more focused on the post-purchase phase. 

Account managers have literally no idea about day-to-day operations and glaze over specific questions asked to delay and confuse owners. 

So there is a 100X weight factor on the licensed professionals for literally everything, everything done and everything not done.

i keep seeing:1. buy out of state rental in a solid neighborhood with long-term potential (just as you are recommending) but then...2. have one rough tenant turn that costs a couple grand, and3. give up on real estate investing, and turn on everyone involved in the transaction for not guaranteeing that sweet cash flow in month 1 I literally just had this conversation with a prospective client when he asked me what a typical outcome looks like.I told him everyone nods and agrees when I drill into them the risks of investing OOS and in Detroit.

If one of the borrowers granted POA, then they won't have any argument- this is literally what the POA is for.

It took me 10 years and I had the benefit of starting when RE was cheap.A business has literally the opposite character: it's primary strength is cash flow.