You can handle it yourself, but if you make a mistake, it will be costly in terms of money, time, and effort to rectify.

To me, this is a 20 second effort on the buyer agent to qualify the buyer. 

I put a lot of effort and money into marketing.

Hopefully they changed their fundraising efforts as it appears based on link above they were fined $85k by the state with their former company.

It takes a lot of discipline and effort to learn what is a good deal or not, if it's worth you and your buyer's time, among other things.

What marketing efforts have you done to get this sold?

I have not been able to get ahold of him in the past few weeks and he has made no effort to reach out to me with a plan to pay his past due rent.

It was a lot of effort on my part for a small win, and I'm glad I did it. 

I thank you all for your time and effort. 

And it required a lot of time and effort on my part whereas the syndication stuff is purely passive.But there's no way anybody can tell me that sfh rentals - if they are bought right at 70% ltv or better - are not going to return way more than anything else on the planet when you factor in how little money you actually have to put into them to begin with and then you let appreciation and principal paydown and rental profits pile up.