It is our job to manage the risk at the inception of the project.Thanks for the info and comments.Alan.Good info.I don't mean for you to talk out of class, but Pace Morby says in one of his recent videos that he is doing "table top" closings (closing outside of escrow)  "because he knows what he is doing". 

I’m thinks just pay him his regular price for the job and throw him 5-10% finders/gc fee instead of making a 70/30 split or something like that.

Those in themselves are great education.Degrees won’t help you much unless you are trying to get a job at a large fund.

We live in the bay area because this is where our jobs are and we have family in the area, but we prefer to invest in landlord friendly states.

It’s your job to convince them of this.Lesson 2️⃣ - When selling a business, there are a lot of time wasters.

Lock are EASY to change if you just stick with the same brand -- it is a 10 minute job.   

They are billed as "a scientific approach to single-family rentals" and use "institutional grade property management," which usually means they are a tech company in real estate and likely either don't have the existing property management relationships in each area or you chose an area where they don't have enough units through Roofstock for the PM they chose to care.

We also do not allow the tenant to patch holes or touch up the paint, because they usually do a terrible job that takes longer and costs more to fix. 

The BEST contractors are in high demand, so are picky about doing bids and taking on jobs.

A lot of investors provide comps (residential RE) but I avoid doing it because it's like telling them how to do there job.