Now if you have someone do that stuff for you for free that is great and keep milking that resource, but they will probably want something in return which would be part of your profit so therefore you just spent money.

But I’ll milk it while I’m here.What should my take-away be?

They will milk every dollar they can from you, and the vast majority of the income the "investor" makes comes from selling you precisely the same education you can get for free on BP or YouTube.

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There are probably some very good turnkey operators that consistently leave enough "meat on the bones" for the investor to make a return, but I think most milk each property for whatever they can get out of it, doing the minimium "lipstick on the pig" renovations, inflating the price to over market value, puffing up their pro forma financial projections, jacking up their property management fees/kickbacks, etc. without much regard to if their clients lose money, and there are plenty of uneducated buyers where they can do this and more of their high profits paying out of state marketing affiliates (many of whom are here on BP posing as investors and talking up how great out of state turnkey is) to locate new buyers since they get no repeat business after their buyers figure out they're losing money.

Money Mustache (a blogger), and the MadFientist blog, the latter is all about people who have achieved financial freedom and live the early retirement lifestyle.

If so as an owner occupant some short sales programs offered money before to move up to 20,000 in some areas.If they are not getting paid anything to move from where they live then it would seem they would milk free rent for a much longer time.  

The lower priced gallon of milk will always sell before the nicely marketed expensive one. 

New investor living in Portland, Oregon.I've been a long time follower of various financial blogs like Mr Money Mustache that advocate fugal living, long term investing, and financial independence.

.#2- flipping/rehabbing properties is also another way of getting rich BUT it also does not apply/work in all cities and states.EXAMPLE: I live in NYC and anywhere in the 5 boroughs, you will lose if you try the BRRRR, buy and hold and renting because NYC is a tenant friendly city and they all know it and they will milk the system and not pay rent for the next 8-12 months which takes that amount of time to kick them out.