That’s sounds like inexperience and lack of knowledge about other markets talking.

I feel like my target seller is an inexperience investor or someone who "ended up" with a rental and never fully intended on being a landlord.

I'm not making excuses for my poor due diligence and total inexperience, I was young and didn't know what I didn't know, but I do know if he had told me he was making $10k for doing so little, I would of hesitated to purchase.

I'm finding that hard to believe, but you guys are obviously way ahead of me in experience and I can't argue with that!

I suppose the discount in fees is attractive, but I'd invest in experience with market fees over investing in inexperience with discount fees any day.Plus, how much did it cost you to put yourself in your situation?

I know I have let it go on for way too long and it has const me way too much but I guess that is partly due to my inexperience and partly because I like to give people chances to do the right thing.

Unfortunately for me and my personality type, I needed a more "hand-held" approach since the myriad of concepts covered within the program from approaching sellers through the various marketing methods to doing walkthroughs to putting together contracts, coupled with my fear (and again, inexperience) of talking to people and lack of self esteem, was more than I could do on my own and I inevitably lost motivation due to analysis paralysis and am no longer a direct student. 

I lost count of how many investors have come back to me burned to the bone by an inexperience realtor. !

It happened to me as a much younger an inexperience home owner.

So, if you give your members a great move-in experience and they stay for a while, you'll earn more than the 12% fee structure.