Finding a good account and bookkeeper wasn't difficult and using online registered agents was way more cost effective.

I am the owner of DealMachine and take personal responsibility for making sure we communicate clearly and have issued a refund to you (the initial charge was April 2023 and it is 2025 now... sorry it took so long to see this).Direct mail is a hard cost, so when you send out direct mail, you get the first 20 free during the free trial. 

Prior to last year, effectively any SFR was eligible for a short term rental license.

Raleigh is in a flywheel effect. 

Click-through rate (CTR) helps measure how effective your ad is at grabbing attention, and if it’s low, you might need to adjust your targeting or creative.

Private lending, if done effectively could give a beginner the contacts, experience and market insight to be ready for the right value add buy and hold.

Those are significant network effects and technology maturity factors that will make it very difficult for a crypto to supplant bitcoin as essentially the global reserve cryptocurrency.

I completely agree with @Ashish Acharya's points about the cost-effectiveness of a HELOC and the potential credit implications if it’s secured by your primary residence.

@Cole Bossert I think @Sarah Kensinger and others have touched on the biggest qualities, especially communication.

It’s a bit intimidating since it’s outside my usual scope of business, but I’m committed to taking the time to learn how to be an effective landlord.