They should provide swift, data-based answers and be willing to walk you through the real ROI math - not just the simplified website math that often excludes key expenses like vacancy and maintenance.

I do have a series of emails I send out to my database on the steps to put large apartment deals together.

It also does not tell me if they are interested in contacts from others. www.biggerpockets.com/forums/86/topics/149128-boot... has some good ideas.A database where I could search for someone willing to provide a service, and see reviews, would be great.

Keep everyone in a database, and make sure you have a system for contacting and following up (it gets very difficult to keep up very quickly).

Watch your expenses, build your database, and stay consistent.

I’m sure you have a list of qualified buyers in your database that you can call or email blast.Post it on this forum as well.

Based on this, and cost aside, would there be a recommendation for which database/ system would work the best?

PS is the best data base tool I've found.  

I found this site, and as I'm pretty familiar with social networking in other contexts, I thought I would try joining the community to see if I can learn some good ways to build our database.

I am kind of concerned about how some dis honest person who has access to the information could possible use  it later or if their database is hacked.