So pick a market that is easily and readily accessible to you.

I had plenty questions when I was determining if I wanted to send him my money, and I was able to talk with him directly very easily.

You could film your logo at intervals to add some protection from it being easily copied.

You can also easily diversify there.

Companies like PolicyGenius do an excellent job selling personal lines coverage (property/casualty and life, mainly) more easily (and maybe more cheaply) than your local State Farm agent.

This issue is usually easily resolved when timed correctly.

Fortunately for the Gurus there is always a new crop of wannabe investors who can easily be separated from their money by selling hope. 

At the time I looked, 20 or so years ago, the problem with smaller down towns is the proliferation of nearby strip malls, where the stores are surrounded by a large parking lots, and for laundromats, attract more customers as they can park easily, walk to adjacent stores for shopping, snacks, and browse newspaper and magazine racks, which explains why they do better, there's more customers.

They charge a flat rate of $600 per $1M in price.My local association and MLS combined is about $1,600 for the year.The only thing that I really miss is having access to the NAR forms or your local state forms, and the software to fill them out so easily, with Glide.com or Zipforms. etc...

Here I have contact info, lease info, AC filter, trash day etc plus all the income and expenses.Then I have a Master tab that has all properties, so I have the big picture of gross rents received.