Yes, speak with a Consumer Protection attorney.

There's a healthy investment to get certified, insurance, etc so wanted to get a temperature gauge before diving in. 

Lets create beautiful, healthy environments for people to live and make money all the while!

Filtering the turds from the gold is the time consuming part but we keep the pipeline full to filter out the turds.

However, its more time consuming than purchasing a list (Queens county clerks office has a computer system for Lis Pendens that looks like it hasn't been updated since the 90's). 

@Michael Lang,Indeed - your thread title was well chosen.The entrepreneurial mindset differs quite radically from the consumer mindset.The consumer mind says, "How much does it cost?"

As with any business, effective marketing is the key to deal flow and I pay a healthy amount of money each month to get the number of leads I get each week, so it really depends on how much marketing you can afford each month and how effective it is. 

Yes this is time consuming but you want to become efficient with it. 

Therefore, consumer have become hypersensitive to ads/spam/etc. and can easily glance over an ad.  

At such prices, it is possible to find investments with with month rent at 1% of the property price (that's 12% gross yield).Investing for rental income is easier than for gain, as one just needs to find a property with an affordable rent, in an area with a healthy job market to be able rent it, there is no need to find a property below market price as in the capital gain business model.At $900-$1400 per month, most tenants rent by choice as they could save to buy a better house.