It also includes common forms that you can edit and use.Their web site is a free resource with links to your state law but I highly recommend the book for some of the practical advice they provide.

There are many additions that you could research around the web but for free and with an eye on local use Its great: http://my.mnbar.org/residentialrealpropertyforms/viewdocument/rpf41-minnesota-standard-residentia

This information is fairly easy to find on your local city / county web site. 

FOCM loans is advertising all over the web and offering some pretty fair terms for hard money loans.

I am a web developer living in San Diego, California area and have a long time interest in real estate, but have not jumped in as of yet.

I do think the OTA's are a threat to our businesses and I also like controlling my own destiny, but is it worth the time, effort, maintenance and cost to drive my own brand on the web? 

. - You must have a good clean web site, a lead magnet (a form to get info from people in exchange for something cool), Facebook pixel and Google analytics at minimum. 

Amazon Web Services had a 15 hour outage last year.

Also completely web-based, I find it to be a much easier platform for someone with little/no bookkeeping or accounting knowledge. 

Have you ever heard the saying "oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive"?