From watching Reddit and my area, it appears to be the case.

The "cash-for-equity" program from QuickLoans appears to be a shared-equity or deferred repayment model, where you receive upfront cash in exchange for giving up a portion of your future equity.

It was initially looking like we were making progress but it appears the project is stalled for the past 2.5 months.  

If I can find something like this that appears doable even with 0% down then I have to imagine other stuff will come up too so I think this can still be done, just have to get stuff at the right price.  

Yea the thing that was confusing was that the listed rentals on Zillow or Redfin had pretty big discrepancies in price while they appeared to me to be of similar quality. 

Nevermind the unlikelihood that any ONE of them is appearing in the top 10 that often (especially at the rate we're getting bookings, I know we're not showing up on the 1st page nearly that often), it's statistically impossible for 30 listings to show up in the top ten 50% of the time even if our 30 listings were the only ones in the entire market, instead of there being 20,000 other listings.It makes no sense. 

You can start by compiling a list of investors who appear on podcasts, reaching out to them, setting up appointments to talk, and beginning to build relationships.

There aren't many things that "appear" to be leaks, they usually are leaks and if it's been leaking since May you are going to have way more issues to worry about than a premium plumber charge.

Dollars outweigh calls every day of the week.To me, what appears to be the problem isn't setting the goals, or choosing the goals, but having a plan of how to get there. 

My main complaint is, they appear to aim for your project ROI target by skimming as much money during PM as they legally can.