Assessing brokers based on their transaction history and success in the market carries more weight than simply focusing on the highest price offered.

That sounds like a strategy that some of the YouTube gurus are teaching to wannabe investors with no money or experience and that is going to end up with a lot of deals going sideways as these buyers will probably fail because overpaying is obviously a bad strategy to begin with. 

-These investments were not even invested in real estate by a real estate company, things like failing companies, crypto, etc.

These deals are so highly leveraged that if they fail to attain their projections and cannot refinance the project, it will fail and go to zero.

I've seen numerous QI's fail during my 40 years in the business, and most of the failures would have been prevented had their been government oversight. 

They failed to compact the footings.  

Above those two, scheduling and time blocking are usually where people are failing.

Your impressive loss of weight and ability to regenerate hair is truly impressive!

If your budget is so tight that you can't handle a small leak, what will happen when a tenant fails to pay the last month of rent and abandons the property with $6,000 in cleaning and repairs?

Contrary to what everyone seems to be saying these days, a good agent is worth their weight in gold.