Taking advice from someone with a financial BIAS is dangerous to your financial health, unless you know that individual to be “above” short term personal gain and strictly in for long term relationships and reputation.  

Do you prefer working with individual freelancers or established teams, and why?

Opportunities in real property investment need to be evaluated individually on their own merits.  

Nobody can safely and legitimately sell tradelines better and quicker than these guys, nobody pays more to do it, and nobody has a 100% commission referral program for each card uploaded by any/all new sellers you refer - without limit.I'm extremely experienced in this and although I've been through a couple growing pains with GFS they've ironed out nearly every issue and went fully transparent with their payment schedule and their system to prove that they will not manipulate pricing based on individual customers.

Not sure about the individual experience but its a lead generation system where we Zs pool up money to advertise our services.

Sometimes people confuse hard money with PRIVATE LOANS, which refer to individuals who lend their savings as investments.

Please don't get separate LLCs that you own individually.

In all fairness though we are conservative and I personally go visit the market ( at my expense) and the individual we are going to work with before I start the program..

To keep up with updates, I follow different Twitter and Facebook posts such as local news reporters and the news channels themselves that update on council meetings and voting.

When we were selling any of our props if we felt we had one of those individuals ( most of my stuff was props  bought at courthouse and would sell as is) EM would be 5 to 10X higher other wise we would not take their offers..