Quote from @Paul De Luca:Personally, I'm not a fan of enabling bad tenant behavior and in life you get what you tolerate.

Reality: In the beginning, most people need help to start growing their funds. he enables this through his network, teaching and creative options to access OPM.

And may enable smaller land lords and investors some relief. 

Have you tried to extract the value add; have you gotten an appraisal?

TenantCloud is free, but I pay $90/yr to enable the online ACH rent payment feature. 

And, like is mentioned, many education programs in RE are more of a lead generation for educator to then continue to sell you and/or extract more value from you, i.e. form a fund of funds so you can help me raise more money.To your theory, I think the other part about real estate investing, especially as it is sold by many gurus by being an escape from your W2, is a bit oximoronic.  

If you can rehab and refinance (BRRRR) to extract all investment and achieve neutral cash flow you would have infinite return (most of my RE investments have achieved infinite return but the cash neutral has in particular gotten a lot more challenging when the rates rose starting Q2 of 2022).Any money extracted via a refinance is tax deferred. 

If I had to choose, I would always prefer cold calling over texting for this approach.The two best strategies I’ve found are inbound methods: direct mail and Google Ads.Direct mail can be expensive, but it can also yield highly discounted properties.Google Ads, on the other hand, doesn’t require data extraction like calls, direct mail, or texting.

If I can scape or use power query on Zillow for free then great, but I think I’ll always have to pay something.I can query now by building customer URL, grabbing the html, and telling power query which elements from the html to extract.

I realize that there's something a mighty thin line between being helpful and enabling, but in the end we all buy from those we know, like, and trust.