., they give me $50,000, I pay them back at ~7% apr, like a regular loan.

When we built our house, we used regular sheet rock in the bathrooms.

Pay down balances regularly to keep your utilization rate low.12.

Coach Carson talks about the small but mighty investor and how you're way ahead of non-RE investors with a few solid appreciating properties3) If you haven't done this already put your money into high yield savings account so your cash reserves can grow 4 to 5% not a regular savings account earning 0.1% interest. 

The coffee with investors is the one that I make it out to the most regularly, but they're all solid options!

They provide all of the same benefits of regular ownership including 1031 exchanges. 

My concern would be in the fact that they operate an hour away, and every time there's an issue, they'd have the barrier of distance, and so would their contractors that they work with regularly.

(Not for regular practice however upon finding something's wrong with the house during the inspection period.)Thank you advance!

Those of us that use them regularly don't have a problem with them.  

Since we have very mild winters, the demand for their services in winter is low, and they regularly offer deep discounts on work and units, just to keep their crews working.