The first effing sticky on this ENTIRE FORUM is a rant from a genuine (I think) investor, sharing an experience which I have had as well. 

He devotes a whole chapter of his excellent book talking about this issue).The dirty secret is that many sponsors pitch (and many probably genuinely believe themselves) that their promote compensation structure (a preferred return and then a split of profits between investor and sponsor) is aligned with their investors.

I budget for this with all of my units so that if someone decides to stay then we can:- keep them for another year, since good tenants aren’t easy to come by- add some more value to the unit (that the tenant desires and is living in during the renovation) sometimes even a little bit on the tenants dime since most tenant requested renovations aren’t less than $1k - show the tenant that we genuinely care and want them to feel at home- show them how expensive some of these “easy” renovations can be, which keeps them from asking for a ton of huge changesAlso, one CON that I think you are omitting is that this could quickly turn into the snowball effect where the tenant wants more things changed or they will threaten to not resign.

But I do believe that being honest, genuine, and personal will get you better responses than the flashy big business ads and hiding behind a web add or google voice number.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that legitimate repair requests should not be handled expeditiously and professionally, I'm only talking about genuinely trivial ones that either the tenant should fix him or herself or should be combined with other items.

Please contact if genuinely interested...

Beyond doing competent legal work, I genuinely do want to see them succeed as investors.

This is a new area for me and a small focus of my business but I am genuinely interested in expanding it.Cheers,

Maybe I’ve just been asking the questions wrong and can rephrase them into something that would show that I’m coming from a genuine place rather than just a business standpoint.

He's a genuine gentleman willing to help those struggling with getting started.