I am not questioning your ability or dedication to what your plan is.

If you want to be passive and use property managers, save yourself the headache and look at the RE crowd funding platforms.

I believe Kigo is the most cost effective, as it is tailored to smaller VR management companies, and the rest of the software platforms target legacy VRM's who are looking for software. 

I've already been able to connect to a lot of smart people on the platform and am looking forward to being a bigger part of it going forward.

Instead of leaving large cash a balances in your bank, I highly recommend looking at their platform.

I guess if you built it with the intention of having it integrated into an existing PM platform... like Appfolio's, you could set your self up as (as one of our advisory board members says) an "acquisition target".

Feel free to reach out to me with any and all questions you might have about BiggerPockets, investing, or using our platform!

Hi, I have been studying for a couple of months now and ready to take it further through implementation and learning some more from this platform.

I think both can provide control from the top down but I was thinking more that a vertical provides specific services where horizontal is a multi service platform.

The 'guru' type atmospheres are usually just cash generating platforms for said gurus; so I would definitely caution against throwing out large sums of money for something like that.