We grew them in an environment where nothing required to be earned, everything was given simply for having wanted it.

You'll make a much healthier return on your investment that way.If you simply want to buy a home and rent it out longterm, Elk Grove and Roseville are both considered more high-end suburbs and have appreciated significantly over the last decade.

My post is simply an opinion of this partnership model not being all that great for "partnership", or "passive investing", or really any mechanism of employing my capital. 

Most of my owners use our services because we take the property off of their hands and minds and they simply collect their checks as they come in but I have some owners that prefer to be more hands on and use our services because they value my opinion, resources, and ability to get their homes occupied at top dollar.- From someone who owns and operates a MTR and LTR PM company with over 75 units and an investor myself

And I totally agree, providing the best value is key and I know that's what would eventually "win" the deal for me at the end of the day.

I've asked my clients a similar question and have developed tools for them to minimize this, but I find there are a few different types of clients.Manager managed - these folks have no issues as they simply upload their year end statement from their property manager, their 1098 mortgage statement and any other one-off expenses they may have paid for outside of the management company. 

We went in with what we hoped would be the winning offer because this is the one that checked the most boxes of everything we'd seen in months and we really like it.Am I even under contract for this property with everything in the address being wrong? 

Gator lending is simply "transaction funding" and doing "2nd mortgages".

If everyone would simply eradicate that from there vocabulary and replace it with "Realized PERFORMANCE".

Simply need the cash.