Promotional disclosure - I am in the business of selling professional services to real estate investors like yourself and completely understand it is not an easy task to find a trusted advisor to bring on as a team member. 

I just signed up, but was wondering if that course provides you with enough tools and info to have the confidence to all in without having to do their mentoring course, which I'm sure they promote when you attend the 3 day course right? 

Anyone who is selling you something is going to be interested in promoting what they are selling, regardless of how good, bad, or indifferent it is.

I have no problem with that.Forgive me if I am mistaken, but it is my understanding that the responsibility  of a forum moderator  is to encourage  participants,  promote learning  and understanding,  to prevent inappropriate  or abusive content.In this case he fell short of those objectives  and I called him on it. 

While I understand that logic behind "fees incentivizes the provider to promote high turnover" it's actually the opposite.

Note; I'm not promoting that option.  

I like your idea of posting good deals on here, however as I understand it, as a Realtor, I am actually not allowed to post those on the forum as the moderators consider this self-promotion, I had a similar post deleted before because of that reason.

You need a marketing or promotional plan for your STR.Find a niche and market towards it.I rent to rednecks and Spanish people doing contract work. 

It will take a few calls and bouncing around before you finally end up talking to the right person.It also helps to have some promotional material you can email them with photos, prices, and a list of services.

Why Bigger pockets is promoting them is a mystery unless they did not do their homework.