If that is what you really want, then buy a damn REIT and be done with it ... at least then you will have top notch professional management, with a verifiable track record, whose profit incentives are not 180 degrees out of alignment with yours, and a fully diversified REI portfolio.

The technology tools are top-notch.

I have been buying and selling my personal and some investment properties for the last 10 years in and around Greeley, and have decided to take things up a notch.

@Christopher Brainard Here is the email from the property mgmt on what they include in the 10% ...Our property management services are top notch.

I want to get a head start in my financial portfolio, and I thought real estate was a top-notch way to do so.

If you want a top notch and convenient area that has duplexes to live in and rent the other it's a great area.

Hello BP Community,I am excited to be here and hopefully learn what i need to know to take this up a notch.  

It kinda takes my desire to own an expensive home down a notch or two. 

Long story short, I took over another route in downtown Greenville, SC, where all the top notch people of the city worked (millionaires, bankers, architects, etc.) while still having my help do my original route at now a 50/50 split.

I just saw all the awards you can get on BP: http://www.biggerpockets.com/awards/500_posts I only have 4 so looks like I need to step it up a notch!