I have no experience with them from the client side, but my interactions with their agents have always been positive.  

That reason is so that you can pay them do deal with all the tenant interaction, and you can perform your highest and best task, which is investing your money so that it works for you. to your successJosh 

It's counter intuitive but the more specific your focus is, the more likely you will find what you are looking for. 

The same intuition you use when meeting someone locally should be applied here.

@Sarnen Steinbarth I keep all my accepted tenant applications on a cloud drive (I am sure alot of landlords do the same), so it would definitely be a nice feature to download to a PDF.The process for publishing rentals and working with applications is not very intuitive.

As a CA renter (but in Bay Area) I would pay higher rent for something tangible that I interact with daily (nice kitchen, floors, etc) but not sure I'd pay "over" market for solar panels.

It’s an interactive and iterative process and involves ongoing discussions around investing goals, assumptions, constraints, specific property plans, schedules and budgets, funding strategy, exit strategy, metrics, market dynamics, key team members, risk management, deadlines, issues, etc.

It's not 100% intuitive, but then again nothing is. 

He could have definitely used "the woman of the house" to use her intuition and keep him from dealing with her.

The "off the top of the head intuitive answer is yes, pay off all of your debts before you star investing seriously.