There is also a web site which works very well called RentoMatic.

Well lets see...Graduate in May.Get settled in my job doing web marketing/sales for a company that I love (and hopefully can afford to retain me)Keep saving those paychecks and hopefully have first 50% rule buy and hold deal done by end of year.

In many states, that's 15 minutes and some chunk of change on the Secretary of State's web site.

I also get a lot of traffic from Craigslist.

While his company is visible on the web, I'm overly cautious at heart and wondered if any investors here who have dealt with private/hard money lending companies or individuals have any criteria they use to verify the integrity of funds being promised.

You have to look at owning Mom and Pop versus a Franchise concept.Franchise will want certain liquidity demands to qualify.You also have to look at for the are the performance of the gas station and it's location.For instance is traffic starting to decline in that area which is an becoming an old part of town??

I have a good web design program on my computer and could have a professional looking site up and running in days.

When someone reads the examples the FBI has successfully and properly prosecuted...No wayyyyy do they do resemble the “case study” in any material way.The link to the FBI web site MHO again... is merely a BS link to add legitimacy to a BS fallacious argument and example.

It means the web itself and when you go outside your market you use the web to find properties,market,etc so in this situation yes it's virtual.

Say I start a few independent websites to drive client traffic in investment property and campus rental areas or start property management and build a portfolio of units.