Quote from @Robin Simon: Agreed - but a conflict of interest can certainly exist with all good actors involved - I don't think it's relevant.

You are conflating a skin color, with a political ideology, with the malicious intent to infer a racial bias if one is of nationalist leanings, to than label those who don't conform with your ideas, agenda and leanings, as that which they are NOT, racists. 

I think any list of bad sponsors needs to be broken down into two categories: 1) Inexperienced sponsors that got caught up in a rising interest rate environment, and 2) Bad sponsors that are either acting malicious and/or greedy.There are many many many sponsors, particularly those on BP and raising capital on social media, that fall within the first category.Category #1 - Inexperienced Sponsors:Ashcroft, Opendoor, Elevate, Western Wealth, Tides, ZMR, GVACategory #2 - Malicious/Greedy sponsors:Appleway, Nitya, Rise48, any "fund of fund" sponsor that's come out of Rise 48, Grant Cardone, Affinity, Nightingdale, Rockstar CapitalThis is just a short list but I think it's important to protect LPs.

It's one of the reasons after all these years I've never had an eviction, or a tenant-initiated malicious destruction, etc.

The “gurus” feeding this information are usually paid actors who have limited or no experience in real estate investing or the real estate industry.  

ANd they dont care about their credit and make sure their is no deficiency judgement there are bad actors out there that will intentionally not pay the mortgage and rip the rents until the bank forecloses a few years down the line all the while creamting the original sellers credit and frying their nerves and freying their marriage.

Could this be the result of some type of maliciousness by those who work in the real estate industry?

A "Sub-2 Collapse" is a very real potentiality given the volume of novice actors in such.- In general, I see politics playing a rapidly increasing role and impact as stimulus and assorted actions have exceptional high probability of occurring induced from political motives, riding backs of legitimate economic standings, but amplified in there deployment via political motives.  

Sure as hell beats paying $40k to an actor fronting for a real estate marketing company operating out of Las Vegas or Salt Lake City and providing guidance by a failed salesman reading answers from a script.  

Someone may ask "So, how do I know my shares won't become worthless through dilution, stock splits, or bad actors?"