A lot of these aggressive tactics that the purely business people mention are the reason that some states and cities have created rules that now make it harder on Landlords to run their properties.

Not to mention I ditched my iPhone 5S for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (battery life = sooooo much better, lasted TWO DAYS without charging) and I don't have iTunes on it (and I probably won't install it either). 

purely investment long term.

@Yousuf Kaleem Change the batteries in the smoke detectors.

So even if these companies gave you pure bonified SEO leads,  they were expecting to deal with THEM, not you.People do not understand the psychology of a conversion. 

Fyi, after my research on about a half a dozen property management companies I ended up engaging with Spinnaker in Tacoma mainly due to the fact that they don't provide any brokerage services just pure property management.

This is purely an assumption though and one that can be confirmed if reviewing the operating/partnership agreements.

I am very fortunate to say that I can generator about $800 pure cashflow from this investment.

Because that may sway who and how you interact also.Plus what kind of money are you bringing to the table to do this, are you broke and hoping (it's purely an academic exercise) or do you have some De-naro to put into a project(???)

If your network likes the pure equity play, you should offer that.With the "debt" financing, are you planning on using this as your mortgage, with no "traditional" mortgage ahead of it?