I have been looking into property management softwares to make payment, communication, maintenance request, accounting, credit checks, advertising of property, monthly/annual financial reports easy to manage.  

That is also correct, I did not advertise my house as having a basement at all.  

You are licensing their logo and advertising materials for your own use.

"Real estate broker", hereinafter referred as broker, anyperson who for another person and a fee, commission orother valuable consideration, or with the intention or withthe expectation of upon the promise of receiving orcollecting a fee, commission or other valuableconsideration, does any of the following:- sell, exchange,purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates, or offers, attemptsor agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, purchase, rentalor leasing of any real estate, or lists or offers, attempts oragrees to list any real estate , or buys or offers to buy, sellsor offers to sell or otherwise deals in options on real estate,or advertises or holds himself out as engaged in thebusiness of selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting orleasing real estate, or assists or directs in the procuring ofprospects or the negotiation or completion of anyagreement or transaction which results or is intended toresult in the sale, exchange, purchase, leasing or renting ofany real estate.

We did get challenged in court once and lost.. turned out the county screwed up on the 21 day advertising requirements.

It's brutal but the hard work pays off.Also, he advertises on Zillow and gets a good flow of buyers looking for properties.

@Marcie Mertz You can use Meetup.com or Craigslist to advertise your group.

There are a lot of start up costs and also competition with the major soft drink companies. ( Stainless steel tanks, trucks, advertising, bottles, labels, marketing, health department regs, etc. )As I am an idiot when it comes to real estate, do you have to 1031 all at one time or over time?

If Tenant chooses to move out before the end of the least term, or renewal thereof, Tenant understands that the Landlord will incur costs which include, but are not limited to, the time and expenses in finding and renting to a new Tenant these costs may include Employee costs, advertising, marketing and other expense.

i have been listening to him also, and at the end of his free course he offers 10 more ways to advertise, create a lead list, etc....Kinda disappointed... because I felt the whole free course was just a climax to the sales pitch.