Effectively good egg is simply a P.O. box that takes a Commission out of your hard earned/saved money, in return, for purportedly providing due diligence to vet the potential projects and sponsors, on your behalf.

The free marketing is not effective in a competitive market neither is the marketing strategy.

I spent a decade in advertising, before founding and running a custom wood shop for another decade, so 'm pretty good at the self-promotion.I agree with you that the more gorilla approach would be most effective and that's actually what i've been doing – calling RE agents in my service area with active listings, introducing myself to property managers and leasing agents...To answer your question, I will have to handle the work myself for 6-12 months to build out the SOPs and field service management systems, but I have a lot of relationships for those looking to "do the work".I'll check out the meet up and would love to grab a cup of coffee, I'll shoot you an email.

By recognizing the signs and implementing effective preventative measures, landlords and property managers can protect themselves from potential scams.

If you have the time to devote to it, direct to seller methods can be very effective, but will take ultra-patience and intensive work. 

It's heavily dependent on the types of properties and the effectiveness your processes and systems.If you don't have systems and processes in place, you may struggle to manage 30 on your own.

Not only would you effectively be giving up your right to proceed by way of non-judicial foreclosure, a very messy judicial foreclosure sale might not succeed and even if it did, ability to pass title would thereafter likely be subject to borrower's statutory redemption rights.

Then, at death, the property’s basis resets, effectively erasing the accumulated depreciation.

But I know that the leaders are working on plans to fix it and they are very skilled and effective.

I’ve seen many investor clients use 1031 exchanges effectively.. just be sure to get specialized tax advice.