Squatters break into vacant homes, can present fake leases, and are a valid problem, but if you have cameras on the house, you will be able to get them out right away and you will see them going in.

They have nice looking direct booking sites, but I'm more curious about their digital marketing training and crm software included with their package. 

When looking for cash flowing markets.. a lot of investors, including myself, are looking in cities like Cleveland.

If you're househacking, it will work just fine in most cases, including a multifamily up to four units.

We cannot grow (land locked) and we have only garbage included in our rent.

We actually CAN'T explain what we are seeing if we are operating on the "purely rational actor" hypothesis (as you implicitly observe), we MUST include highly irrational and emotional individuals to explain what we are seeing.- Investor uncertainty.

Tenants should pay  utilities - they're consuming those and landlords should 'inspect' what they expect on a quarterly basis and that includes verifying that utilities are current.  

We sign the partnerships agreement which includes verbiage defining roles and profit share.

I had specifically asked for numbers including mortgage payments and they emailed to me.

Since I work pretty hard at my day job and don’t have much renovation experience, I wanted something simple—a rental I could put a tenant in and at least break even.