While the web is great to gain knowledge and network and cannot replace what can be gained from talking with successful investors and trading information/strategies/contacts/etc.

Why not have the investors putting out their info consolidate onto Bigger Pockest and eliminate a few of the numerous sites out there on the "web".

There are small additional fees if you want a web site.

Take care, Stuartstuart888 is absolutely right -- and if you do want to read up on this, go to our web site (realdata.com), click on the "Learn" tab and then click "read all of our real estate articles" Near the bottom of the list you'll find "Understanding Net Operating Income" and "How to Estimate Resale Value - Using "Cap" Rates."

As I grow I will probably integrate desktop programs (like MS Office, or OpenOffice, or Applix), to use MySQL as a backend, but this is only to make it easier for employees, or helpers.For data entry, and retrieval, usually a web interface to the database works fine, and likewise a shell program, or curses-style interface.For printing flyers, and addressing direct mail pieces, I use PostScript, and shell scripts I write to create the output.I am in South Florida, and I can say that this state makes a lot of public record info available in electronic format at the state, county, and municipal level, usually free, and available on the net.My website is simple, but seems to be working.

Many sales including my own has no sales price listed on our county auditor web site.

I 4 got to let you know that the owner/fsbo dose not want me to know this infor she just want me to make an offer then she'll let me know if she will accept it or not I dont want to be to pushy and push her away so I m going to go found out through the internet or call the recoder of deed and found out whats the web site I can get the infor, I dont have time to go down to the main office. by the way she said(owner/fsbo) that the lender is willing to do a short sale!

You should have a professionally designed Web site made as soon as possible.

Successful marketing, especially of intangibles, is much more likely to be successful if either the prospect intiates the contact, for example looking for a higher yield investment and comes to your web page, or through REAL networking, i.e. hearing you speak at a real estate conference, being introduced by a mutual business associate, etc.

Straight from the IRS web page: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=206291,00.html Q.