Looking to buy Business around Portland metro below $300k.

@Chad CutshallI can't answer for them, but their website doesn't indicate that buying/reselling notes is part of their business model.

I made a few thousand less than expected but I figure that's just the cost of doing business sometimes.Based on my experience I wouldn't let the remote possibility that a homeowner might go into greed mode dissuade you from doing these deals.

We both run our own businesses but we feel that real estate will help make sure we both maintain our life plans of not needed to work as much any more.

Additionally, there was no business license registered in the City of Atlanta.Suspicious Communication: The individual identified as Chris Anderson had a heavy foreign accent and provided convincing but dubious claims about the company's legitimacy.Questionable Financial Arrangements: Upon loan approval, the wiring instructions directed the loan fee to a Capital One checking account under the name of a supposed loan facilitator—a 85-year-old woman in Florida.

Both from how you want to structure your rental property business and how to handle things from a tax perspective. 

Most businesses, property management or not, fail due to the lack of sales, not due to the lack of systems and phone etiquette.

Even if you create a non-CA LLC, if you are managing the business from California, you will likely be deemed to be "doing business" in California and therefore likely subject to CA taxes.

Having trusted resources in market have been helpful in managing our properties and contractors especially when my non-real estate related consulting business is in its busy season.

It makes lead management way more efficient since they get to focus on people who actually want to do business.