This should give you an idea that your business model is outdated, and you lost your competitive advantage.

I find it disturbing how many "business models" are all about suckering people into buying and even use skillful wording to deceive people into signing up.

This is an opportunity to confirm they have the expertise you need.

VG  it was my understanding that sub to guys charged 15k .. thats what one BP member told me at the time.. so its hearsay how much they actually wanted for their expertise..

Since the assumable financing and seller carry combined could put a strain on your monthly expenses, it’s important to model different scenarios for vacancy, maintenance, and management costs.

The BRRR strategy is much easier than ground up new construction with much less expertise needed for success. 

I'd love to utilize their expertise when assessing a property since they are local but I'm not sure what the general expectation is when I don't have a tangible property and I have not entered into contract to work with them yet.Some questions I have are: local regulations/permitting timeline, property's potential from their perspective, landscaping/amenities cost estimate (they also help facilitate this).

The purpose of investing in a syndication is to leverage the sponsor's time, expertise and ability to source great deals, but if the experience is going to cause you to lose sleep at night, the return may not be worth it.

This would be my first STR so I also am personally interested in giving this business model a try to see if I do want to operate in this space longer term and want to do this properly. 

Many companies only release certain clusters and types of data which can make assumptions riskier and modeling outputs more variable.