I found the setup and management process on Booking.com to be horrendous, not intuitive, time-consuming, fees are expensive, I had to manually process credit cards, and only got a few bookings for my trouble.  

Never pay an upfront fee.You didn’t mention your state but understand that with little exception, an NMLS registration is only required for consumer-purpose loans.

CA RE Broker ( which I have) standard state MLO and NMLS  and Consumer finance license.

Not wanting to sound like an attorney, but companies like the teaser because they are on firm legal ground: so long as company clearly tell consumer prior to purchase when they must cancel by [knowing statistically enough will not comply in time to make the teaser marketing profitable] be it rebates on computer software that many folks will fail to mail in, or real estate CD w/â€mentoring†or whatever that some unfortunate folks will not timely cancel, or Chrysler minivans forget to return….Legrand was very ethical each time I or my partners have tried his teasers [no Mr.

They have someone assigned to "Consumer Complaints." 

Clearly there is a sizeable amount of people consuming content about this stuff.Furthermore, there are literally millions of entry level rental properties in the Midwest.

I see you guys are having issues as investors, wondering if anyone has had experience on the consumer side?

U.S. consumers lost a lot of their discretionary spending income from 2008-2012 meaning eating at Taco Bell and shopping at Dollar General would suffice.

Economic growth means higher household incomes, better employment rates, and stronger consumer confidence, all of which directly fuel demand for real estate.

They make their money off of real estate agents, but real estate agents are the worst people to make money off because they are highly unreliable and in and out of the business when the market changes.Their target should be the consumer with higher levels that they can subscribe too for data, since Zillow is linked to the MLS now which makes their data somewhere more reliable.