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? 

Not so good if you have the time and want to devote the effort into building your own team, you want to learn as much s possible about investing from the ground up, want the opportunity to maximize your equity etc. you get the general pattern.markets (mostly midwest, and some in south)Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Indy, KC, Memphis, Birmingham.

I've removed a fair amount of garbage myself over the years...haha.And @Chris Emmanuel I would look to work for a broker who supports dual career (part time) agents, because you don't want too much pressure to meet sales activities and goals when you are trying to devote most of your time to your own investing.

. - 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.

Perhaps shifting to work for a startup might free you up out of the corporate America's stuffiness.2) Devote More Time To Your Hobbies: Don't know how much free time you have, but perhaps you can increase the amount of time you spend fixing up dirt bikes and rebuilding classic cars with your kids.

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