WARNING: if you do not prepare for this, you can enter a death spiral: deteriorating properties lead to lower rents, worse tenants, more wear and tear, even less cash flow to fund repairs and ultimately erode asset value.I do not mean to rain on your parade, hopefully, this is a helpful long term perspective. 

This also leads owners to ASSUME simpler is better when it comes to management contracts.

And yes, over leveraging a Subto and using "gator" lenders is not only bad practice, but it's going to lead to law suits.He is wrong on so many levels that I have posted extensively on it and it gets boring.

Many of the OTAs and lead gen sites, like Furnished Finder, are pushing credit card payments. 99.9% of the time I get a message from FF saying 'your tenant would prefer to pay by credit card so activate Stripe now!' 

That when decision points happen, you get together and allow them to lead in preference of the actions. 

Please clarify, how many lenders we have "signed up" and how much they "pay" for "leads".

Because of the frustration, when asked to purchase the large lot in front of their house which leads to the main road, they turned it down.

I think you’re under a misconception that’s leading you to think you have options you don’t…You say it’s worth $1.1M and you’d net $500k.

She blatantly lied about tenants moving out, only to later admit in an email that there had never been a tenant in the unit at all.Failure to Collect Rent & Protect Owner Interests – She made what seemed to be no real effort to collect rent from tenants who consistently fell behind, leading to thousands in lost income.

Cost Seg studies will put depreciation on steroids and likely lead to a "Tax Loss".