**Very Significant factor** Our structure is very different in the fact owners have a dedicated Asset Manager as their single point of contact.

There's also tons of podcasts, books and blogs dedicated to syndication.

Using conservative estimates on profit & and loss diagrams there's an increase in profit margin with substantially less time needed to achieve the estimated goals.This advantage is noticed immediately and allows each company to attribute much needed time towards building external business relationships and diversifying their income apart from the partnership.The partnership would be its own sector within each company which has its own staff and resources dedicated to performing all partnership tasks helping to keep external operations separate.

There is an entire section of my state's judiciary which is dedicated to the relationship between me and my tenants.

An obsessive dedication to the BP Podcasts led me to join the site. 

Access to great financing relationships, brokers, and agents is also very important.On a much broader level, what you need to become successful in real estate investing is to become a master of hard work, with a purpose and dedication.

Newer agents also have much more time to dedicate to investors like yourselves because they haven't built a big of a client base yet.

FYI - there's a site called Flyer Talk and a thread specifically dedicated to applying to Chase / Cap One / AMEX credit cards, and it's a good read on applying and in what order.  

In Addition, all the major Commercial Real estate brokers have a separate division that is dedicated to Self-Storage, much like apartments. 

For example, I heard that you have to have a dedicated on-site property manager for some large units?