No matter what market you select, you need to spend a lot of time there getting to know the market and the “players” in that market.Which of these markets can you get to easily and often?

Sometimes it's minimal and other times it's blatantly obvious that she isn't getting the respect she deserves just because she's a young female doing business in a male dominated industry.It's very easy for us to say it doesn't exist when we have absolutely zero knowledge of what it's really like to be in their shoes.

Appfolio, Rentvine, Buildium are the 3 big players in the market.

You either need to become an expert and do SEO yourself or hire an agency that has a complete plan and roadmap for getting you to a place where organic motivated leads are flowing to your site at a rate where you are taking down profitable deals each monthMike Plactere of We Buy Long Island Homes Fast is a perfect case study of someone who used this approach and is dominating his market.  

If you took the top 3 players to lunch or dinner quarterly, you'd spend a lot less yet gain a lot of knowledge.

Out here, the market is DOMINATED by these express, self-service car washes, they have maybe 2 or 3 people working, very cheap. 

We had a list of preferred real estate agents we listed our stuff with to get fair market (maximum) sales price.If we wanted to dump a property below market value, we knew who the players were and would contact them discreetly - we didn't want any negative publicity.Unless you find a desperate, failing lender, don't see you having much success.

Keep in mind this guy was a bigger player so he had Lots of deals out with this lender and now peer st. 

Before long you'll know a bunch of the local players and won't need to share unless you have trouble selling to your list... and then team up again, meet some more investors, list will continue to grow.

@John UnderwoodBaseball story about the origins of Charley Horse: from an 1887 newspaper article:When Mutrie, of the New York team, suddenly began limping after running to first base in one of th[e] games played here last fall, [e]very bass ball player at once ejaculated "Charley horse."