Many of my perceptions and experiences of real estate investors and landlords have been awful.

The markets are highly irrational right now because public perception is overreacting.

The issue with the previously posted list is those are all cities Vacasa operates in and not just an overall market perception. 

I think every person has a different perception of what quality is and leaving the creation of standards up to the individual is a recipe for disaster.

It's just one slice of what can be done to make money in RE, it's not always the easiest, not always accomplished in simple steps, takes much more knowledge sometimes, Well, I started this thread and although it was many pages ago when it started, clearly I did not make it out to be the glamorous method the gurus seem to make it, on the contrary, I pointed out many of the common mistakes and mis-perceptions that investors make in this area in the effort to educate and avoid the same mistakes.

Or do you think that after 20+ years of sacrifice to build wealth you will have any influence on the adult they became as they were influenced by societal norms?

I do plan to continue to let an agent handle all my sales, but I am not sure if I will be easier for a buyer to sue me since there may be a perception I am held to a higher standard since I am in the business even though I am not representing myself.

I actually liked the daily script handed down by the societal norms.

I'd suggest you look at a large public housing development and the issues of public perception, which steers your marketing abilities regardless of rent pricing, low, low-moderate or moderate.You also end up competing against yourself, one unit will always be more desirable, you'll learn to stager rents and not show some units until others may be rented.It's great to go in and redevelop an area, improving and increasing values, but it's not just dependent on the dollars like looking at the ARV of one property.

But maybe a more important question to ask (from a real estate investing point of view) is this: What's the public perception of the level of risk?