These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

Because with an HOA in tow that means your not doing it alone, you have active "partners" who will be taking care of a slew of things so think of it like training wheels. 

Interestingly, I saw a paid ad for their inner circle training program on my FB feed just yesterday.

This will also be a training course on how to landlord, and you can see if you like it or not.

@Chris Brown One rule of thumb I highly recommend - never ever ever buy loans from wherever you get your training.

(I literally made my money back for the training on subsequent real estate deals.)  

I will say using QBO properly takes experience so it's not the best software for an REI doing their own books who doesn't have any training.

I think too many people get into this and struggle for too long before realizing that they not been properly trained and potentially could have dramatically shortened the learning curve.   

Not many landlords buy their rentals this way. although with all the guru training many are trying and we will see how it all works out.it takes sales skill to talk people into deeding you their home.. this is a highly charged emotional situation..

I saw someone post in a group who I think is a schmuck brag about hitting a specific figure for their training and I just shook my head - like wow - this person is a great sales person and just steals the same lines from the business book about working hard and throwing out some slick slogans - but man oh man - when real estate gets hard people move to being a guru - just look at FB ads right now - many are not funds anymore but how to raise money, how to do X.