Unlike our real estate investment, there weren’t hefty transfer fees involved in either the purchase or sale.

I alsodidn't see any mention of HOA fees/dues and or rules.

Quote from @Brandon Leffler:I may sell my condos in CA as the HoA's have climbed to 400$/mo I wouldn't sell your condos solely based on HOA fees being $400/mo.

If you think about it in any industry less transparency and more friction in the transaction will increase fees/commission vs reducing them.I like the idea as an investor of having different agents, a team of agents maybe 3-4 bringing me deals, but I think less of that will happen now as all will have to have you sign some kind of agreement up front. 

Just say you can't qualify and I don't want to charge you app fee.  

When you sell, there are going to be realtor fees, property taxes, lots of costs.

At the same time though, if you are the one who walked into the store and tried on the clothes and asked the sales clerk how it looks, then your asking to be influenced. if you spend time on a real estate investing website where people are in the business of investing in real estate and you ask if you should invest, you will likely get a lot of responses that say you should invest in real estate and let me help you for a fee.

I know they are crazy guest friendly but this seems over the top.Guest didn't deny it....responded with "I payed the cleaning fee, why would I clean up?"

Having management in place always costed me 12% even with a '7.75%' fee. 

With DSTs you need to make sure that the various fees don’t negate your profits.