The purpose of investing passively is to leverage a sponsor's time, expertise, and ability to source great deals, but your overall experience will be driven by the answers to all the questions above, so make sure to cover that in your vetting process.

Sure but you can be 100% certain that with the lists being sold by every guru out there and the use of AI and VAs, you are now in the middle of a crowd. 

Populations and economies big enough to support a healthy rei climate, but small enough so that values are not artificially driven up too fast.

My marketing consists of having a VA cold call, cold text, and I do warm email follow-up to the leads we've talked to.Admittedly, I'm a data-driven person and like to be "in the drivers seat".

Financial planning is pretty easy, particularly for someone that is savvy and driven enough to have a robust property portfolio. 

I've driven through a few times through the years and it's been a little frightening.

So who is using AI?

Closer to beltline properties can be an option because we see pretty good appreciation driven by the beltline in the past.

@Jon A.Years back with D/C properties, we would ask them if they had driven by the property.

Copy pasting some AI would defeat the purpose and erode my reputation.