I am a licensed real estate broker and licensed lender and the safety of funds and returns are great. 

Biggerpockets and/or reddit wont cut it. 

Hey Nicole, yeah I have heard and seen less traffic as well - some a speculating that the current administrations cuts within a recent big bill is forcing places of employment, specifically hospitals to restrain from paying premuiums on travel jobs and focusing on staffing positions.

50% should actually motivate your PMC to proactively keep tenants, which cuts down on your turnover costs.

The sales market is steady, we are not going to see a crash in this area, but it is taking longer for houses to sell and that cuts into profit margins. 

OR, in this, we can cut-out the middle person and it's just them and me directly, and I instead pay them that profit/interest.     

Or adopt a Zillow like structure and get a cut from each closing! 

We have done pretty well in the 4 years of hosting and have gotten almost all of our tenants through Furnished Finder and Airbnb, with a slight edge to Furnished Finder.

I'm not exactly answering your question, but as a lender I know that there are ways to cut the amount of deals lost to financing down dramatically. 

The team did a quick turn, cost cutting repairs designed to hide several expensive flaws (e.g., spray paint over wood with visible mold, partially covering rotted wood with plywood, etc).