I am biased because I sell professional services but if you do not get value from your advisors you can always go back to DIY. 

I’ve always questioned why compensation has to be commission based and tied to the sales price but as a non-realtor I’m biased.

The fee is advertised publicly for all to see, regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, accent, or whatever.

While you might think that there's nothing wrong about getting paid for a referral as long as it's good (I've never done it myself), the problem lies elsewhere: you have to understand that their opinion or advice could be biased or first and foremost in their own self-interest, especially if they're not disclosing their financial interest.

The contractors they send out are not making a lot of money unless it is a major repair, so they are biased towards replacing the water heater (or whatever) instead of fixing it. 

  ( Hopefully you are with high integrity people, but there is always a bias because they get a pay day if you buy.) 

@Juan David MaldonadoUnfortunately, with recency bias of buying any home and turning it into an investment property and having it make money over the past five years, that no longer holds true.Real estate will begin to normalize aa interest rates are not artificially kept low.

I'll definitely check out the book you recommended and bias towards action!

I have a clothing policy because its mixed-gendered housing.There are shared hallways and stairways. 

People who did it wrong and weren't able to execute.If you do it right, it’s statistically the best market in the country for cash flow.I'm pretty biased towards Metro Detroit...HOWEVER, I do personally make over $100k/yr cash flow from 16 properties here.