Reading "Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics" doesn't make doing the problems simple, interviewing recent graduates about the struggles of boot camp doesn't make a 15 mile hike with 100lb easy, taking advice about how to fly in formation 100ft from another aircraft at night doesn't make it easier (or any less risky).

This information is fairly easy to find on your local city / county web site. 

FOCM loans is advertising all over the web and offering some pretty fair terms for hard money loans.

Portland's fundamentals are very solid for the long term so I wouldn't just ignore the market you're already in.

I am a web developer living in San Diego, California area and have a long time interest in real estate, but have not jumped in as of yet.

I do think the OTA's are a threat to our businesses and I also like controlling my own destiny, but is it worth the time, effort, maintenance and cost to drive my own brand on the web? 

Fundamentals don't really change. 

Do not drift away from the fundamentals of analyzing your acquisition; be it commercial or residential. 

. - You must have a good clean web site, a lead magnet (a form to get info from people in exchange for something cool), Facebook pixel and Google analytics at minimum. 

Amazon Web Services had a 15 hour outage last year.