Confirm that the provider has a pristine reputation (e.g.

To keep his reputation he paid those investors back the $100,000 plus 8% which he did not have to.  

I looked into the maintenance option years back to discover a trend of:  apx. 8% monthly fee which only included rent collection (everything else from maintenance to turnovers etc, extra, and poor reputation on repairs.)

I guess Lendbase only puts a $1,000 value on their reputation.

I agree that is will be a gamble as to how well it will do.Also, ask the owner if they will entertain partial owner financing to keep from dragging family and friends into this risky business venture.Maybe even rent from owner for a year with right to sublease to see how it goes before committing to a purchase.

7) What's their reputation?

A PMC can get a bad reputation really fast and be forced to use only the WORST contractors that are unreliable hacks. 

just cold call expired , its hard work makes you feel annoying as hell and its more like gambling with your time but its straight to the money. and all the best agents are listing agents anyways . focus on taking listings

Is it a reputable company and will the documentation provided from the study hold up in an audit?

Especially if they put in $35K, or what amounts to most of the then total of their liquid wealth.On the other hand, we saw experienced investors with really strong reputations scale from a few million to a hundred million, or, in some cases, literally billions of dollars, in AUM at the worst possible time between 2019 and 2021.