Online payment. 

Check out other online guides available here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides3.

The "online leads" trend becomes a vast pool of scams, each one discovering a new and "better" way to find motivated sellers via SEO/Paid adds/Social Media etc, and automatically aims to make a profit from selling those so-called leads.

Tax shelter schemes, partnerships with foreign partners and accounts, partnerships with hundreds of members, returns with blatant mistakes, entities in questionable businesses, like gambling, drugs, online video sales, escort services.

They are highly secretive however - no online presence under their names while being very tech-advanced, they also installed like seven cameras around the house perimeter.

Definitely join your local chapter of REIA (real estate investors association) or join one of the ones that are fully online (Columbus and Cincinnati).

A property manager that can assist with rent collection, tenant screening, maintenance, and run an online ledger for us to track expenses.

We've all probably felt a little pain this year with rents and longer vacancies due to all the inventory coming online, something like 50,000 units in 2024...so plenty of vacancy and free rent while those get leased up. 

I would never form an entity with them when I can do it online with a firm that charges a fraction of what they charge).

Build your knowledge with books, podcasts, and online resources, and network through local REIA meetings and virtual platforms.