One is Madison and they charge $20 a month with Internet access and the other is Allied Servicing which charges $18.50 a month with no internet servicing.

Second, I pay for all utilities (Electric, Gas, Water, Yard Maintenance, Internet, etc.) and have it included in the rent price.

Also it is so much easier today with the internet.

Buy where taxes are low on rental properties, populations are growing, economies are growing, and there are at least two of the following: Gov spend, Major healthcare, transportation hubs, universities, sports teams, industry concentration, tourism, manufacturing.

Market OverviewThe Los Angeles office market is comprised of 210.4 million square feet in twenty-one geographic concentrations ranging in size from the 38.9 million square foot Downtown submarket to the Mid-Cities submarket, which accounts for 1.8 million square feet.

And concentrate the cash into one of them leaving it available for you to do an eash cash out refi.If you can't or don't want to do a 1031 then make a priority list of your properties and sell the one that - brings in the least cash, you've owned the shortest amount of time (so least depreciation) and has the greatest equity. 

Thats a huge accomplishment, it not like anyone with $150 and an internet connection can do that. 

Most property owners that get into the start of foreclosure sell before it becomes REO...the internet makes it much easier for owners to sell instead of take the foreclosure route.

You didn't know who to trust, half of all courses that were on the market were good, tons of fly by nite operators (still many of those), performance in websites was an afterthought... and in general the market had nowhere trustworthy to go to learn how to grow their real estate business using the internet. 

But one thing is for certain when you syndicate you now have 1000 partners who all have access to the internet for all things good bad or indifferent.How One handles the tough times is very important to reputation management as we ALL go through tough times if you have been in this business long enough.