The STR model is, potentially, the only way to achieve any net cash flow, even if modest.  

Don't care what you all think, I have done the unthinkable obsessively maniac beat mode to get here.How do I know no one did as much as I did?

We have also been growing a lot and when you are in growth mode those marketing expenses go up quite a bit until you get to sustainment times (I seem to keep wanting to grow for some reason).  

You should feel like you’re in combat mode daily whether that be negotiating deals or managing contractors.

. :)  average person could not get a investor loan to save their life.. banks went into lock jaw mode and that's one of the reasons the market CRASHED... even if rates go up that will create a slow down no doubt.. but not a crash.. its lack of financing altogether that created the crash.. along with all the crappy loans that were written. pre 07  

Your business model is still  bad. 

You just tend to have a different perspective than others who have not been attacked and have an idea in their head of what will happen in such a situation versus reality.There is no legal or self defense advice given and some modes of defense can be deemed as (excessive force) based on the situation at hand.      

We are in a suspended animation mode with real estate.

Let me add my prospective as a real cash out of state investor to show how addition of wholesalers complicates things and drags investors back to analysis paralysis mode.

I divide it into acquire mode or preserve mode.