From my research online, there haven’t been any recent violations.

I'm in Austin and there is a online mattress showroom that I visited to try out different brands. 

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Join local meetups or online groups (here on BiggerPockets, Meetup.com, other other local REIA are the good ones).

Permit expeditors (they usually know how hard it is to do in that area too) are great if everything is not already completely online with the jurisdiction.

so the thing you're looking for is likely something you can't find online.  

I understand equity and cash-flow are related, but what I mean is that I don't need the cash flow right now as much as I'd like to build a strong portfolio that can cash flow even more later on.I've owned a single-family rental for 4 years, but on mulitple fronts I felt like I've done a poor job self-managing it, so this Fall I picked up the Turners' book on managing rentals and that's what led me here to Bigger Pockets online.

He practiced that well and his son is now one of the largest developers in the country, if not the world.The nice thing for investors is that there should be a 2-3 or maybe 4 year gap in major apartment developments coming online. 

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Santarelli allegedly purchased from a government auction from the bankruptcy trustee and relaunched online.