Its there business.. and a legit one..I have financed many students that never heard of BP and got their training through some type of guru.. but as stated where people get heartburn is the cost and the burn out rate. or failure rate of students.But look at BP  look at a 3 year old thread you will not recognize hardly anyone.. they got hyped up engaged for a while then moved on.. some because they successful and don't want to contribute anymore .. but the vast majority realize that its a tough business and they are not cut out for it for any number of reasons..

I work with Landlords all the time that managed their own property until they finally burned out.

Exciting @Cassidy Burns, keep us posted!

A CoC lower than the pref is okay for the first year or two with justification; burning off bad debt, low occupancy during renovations, building out new units, etc.

Since you were burned before, you can either learn from those mistakes or repeat them. 

You don't want to burn any bridges by miscommunications or not properly addressing resolution paths, buy-outs, exits, etc. in a legal manner on paper and signed by parties.

They let their dog eat my house, burned a section of the carpet through to the subfloor, just bad.

@Sunny Burns I had just listened to your episode the day before you posted this and was going to reach out to you!

Not sure what happened to the house, maybe it burned, maybe it blew down, maybe it got torn down by the city, maybe it was a meth lab....but in any case the house is gone. 

@Anthony Fanucci talk to @Cassidy Burns he knows the DC Virginia market actually has a podcast on it every week and is great at making numbers work.