But I could have easily been going through what you are by jumping in and believing shady people who just want to make a buck off me.

Welcome @Erin O'Brien the Philadelphia suburbs (Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, and Chester counties) are some of the hottest markets right now to get into.

Was he/she worth the few thousand bucks?  

If this isn't being done, then yes that does fall on Brandon (and his other co-owners) as the buck stops with them regarding institutional failures. 

This will cost your buyer roughly 20 bucks each month, but its completely worth it. 

Theme park hotels and places like Great Wolf Lodge who have rooms like that charge big bucks for them.We could possibly add an ADU, but as LTR only.

Tenants won’t maintain it and you’ll have an annual expense of a couple hundred bucks.

Yes Carrot focuses on helping you get more highly motivated leads online through SEO, paid marketing, and our high performing sites... ... but my real mission at the start was to help to start to elevate the industry to be a more legitimate industry, with higher trust, more transparency, and to challenge all companies in our space to just operate in a way that advances the industry in the right direction for the long-term rather than making a quick buck and causing the trust in the industry to regress. 

You have to be careful its not that these guys can beat you out of an upfront fee of 500 to 5000. but you have spent the time to find a deal you put up EM it maybe non refundable and when these guys just vanish without a trace your out what you paid them you lost your EM  your money on inspections and most important THE DEAL that was going to make you big bucks.

Quite frankly I can’t be parting with a few hundred grand to make a few bucks a month any advice?