Sellers asking for POF"s, or anything else for that matter BEFORE a buyer has opportunity to view any details happens only when a middle man or too many middle men are present or are not real sellers.

In my opinion if there is profit to be made why don't you pay a designer to furnish it and turn it over to a property manager and cut out the arbitrager middle man?

Rationalization = Losing moneyThe actual cost of the property is the amount of cash you put into the deal. 

She kind of went away from real estate investing techniques and became more about pitching all the group deals she was acting as a middle man for.I've looked at her deals before and some areas are absolutely terrible.If you're looking for the turnkey investments, I would say the deals her site recommends are probably about the industry norm.

These shortcuts are not time savers, they are deal killers, or rationalization justifiers. 

You are trying to rationalize folks' discontent with Disney and/or determine the cause(s). 

Of course I'm only rationalizing this now, after the fact.

Here in Florida it's now a felony and they are targeting wholesalers.Being a "middle man" to a real estate transaction that you do not have ownership in and are going to make money on the transaction...is essentially a really good description of a licensed real estate agent. 

With this you can target areas and cut out the middleman.

They rationalize this bias so consciously, they think it's correct based on the data, when in actuality they're cherry picking data that confirms what their sub conscious is telling them.