There are literally entire CLASSES devoted just to the notion of discounting and how it applies to investing, yet Gallinelli attempts to explain it in one paragraph and then apply it to real estate in another page or two.

And this notion of managing the manager is overblown, particularly as you scale.  3rd party PMs may accommodate things like communication requests but they are largely not going to change how they manage vacancy and maintenance (the two largest costs of 3rd party PM) on an investors' handful of units differently than the other hundred of properties in their portfolio. 

We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."

If you attended a seminar to learn about REI and the speaker said squat about the difficult of being a landlord as he enthusiastically pitched the notion that running rentals was the Very Best Way to build passive income...yeah, that's how to goes with REI seminars.5.

So the notion or guidance is literally foreign to her.

When I don't know how much a job is worth and I can find 3 otherwise equivalent subs to give me call backs, I always like the notion of getting 3 bids and picking the middle.  

No, I strongly disagree with the notion that the syndicator is more important than the asset, especially in the current cycle.

The notion that there aren't many multifamily properties in DC is ridiculous. 

I like the notion of gaining Control of a property, that seems a bit easier from my current perspective.To answer your direct question.  

The most interesting "crazy" ideas I've read in the forums recently is the notion that GRM is not relative but absolute to price.