Sounds like rational advice.

Rational; I live in a region of Colorado known as "the front range" (it's a mountains thing), and I buy houses.

They typically do not focus on their check being $150 this way or that because it is far more rational to do a killer job for you and get future business in the form of referrals and working with you in the future.

You can justify a personal decision with math, but it doesn't work in reverse, that's just a rationalization,...and that's the most expensive word in the REI vocabulary. 

It didn't have enough equity to make selling worth it and back then the rents to sales price ration was much sweeter in my area than it is now.

Rationalization = Losing moneyThe actual cost of the property is the amount of cash you put into the deal. 

These shortcuts are not time savers, they are deal killers, or rationalization justifiers. 

And this ISN'T a 'pitch,' nor a 'rationalization,' but if someone other than these 'gurus' did meet people on a level playing field...

You are trying to rationalize folks' discontent with Disney and/or determine the cause(s). 

Of course I'm only rationalizing this now, after the fact.