This is a corollary to #3, but it's easy to see others seemingly doing well with something and want to jump on board.

I started with 1 year OTR with my wife as a passenger before shifting into local jobs.

I woild not change managers until you get on board with your responsibilities as a owner and begin to manage your manager.

I'm curious if anyone has seen a significant increase in property taxes either way, how their lender evaluated the potential increase, and if their lender was on board with an entity transfer. 

I am married and although my wife is onboard with house hacking and growing our wealth she told me a backyard will be a must have so we're leaning toward duplexes.

In my world it's a matter of getting the PM on board to select and manage the right property and the right tenants. 

I am eagerly looking for educational seminars and networking events in order to expand my knowledge before fully jumping on board into the Real Estate Investment world. 

My father is a landscaper and is usually slow in winters (besides plowing) and hes on board to help renovate.

I'm extremely skeptical that consumers are going to be on board to willy nilly provide the passwords to all their online bank accounts to allow it to happen, however.

The on-boarding alone is another full time job.As Julie McCoy pointed out, the advantages (marketing, payments, time input, expertise, insurance, legal, website creation/maintenance, SEO, reach) currently far exceed the dependency disadvantages of OTRs.For all that value and time savings, I wouldn’t even bother too much circumventing their communication system to deal outside their box.