But, not much on best practices for starting an association up.

Many of the books and kits are practically new.

Good thing this is just a practice scenario!

I got home , checked the citys GIS map online and found out 1 is owned by a place called MLQ Investments LP, out of deleware. the only info I could find on them was a bunch of lawsuits against them for unfair collection practices.

Non-compliance comes at a dear price; loss of freedom (jail time), liquidity (fines) and rights to practice business.

I have experience with both...SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC...Driving new and relevant traffic to your landing page or website is what Adwords does best---it works masterfully if your ad draws attention.Converting this PPC lead into a paying client is something altogether different---your website needs to be leakproof (lead leakproof that is) to get the greatest ROI from Adwords...I give you an example of conversion/ROI on an active campaign I am running for bad credit mortgages that I spent $750 on in April: Click Through Ratio: 1-15% depending on keyword (I don't pay top dollar for my keywords and as a result, CTR is lower then it could be).

Using it as anything other than that is bad practice IMO.

Is this common practice for title companies in general?

This morning I've already been on the phone, talking to a broker who has another multiunit listing in the same city and basically just trying to get more information about the market.As far as not having any brains, I actually think that I'm relatively intelligent (I went to a top tier eastern college, have a law degree and have been working in private practice doing high end estate planning and probate for 8 years) and going about this in a fairly reasonable way.

(My short term goal is to con MikeOH into doing a full brain dump which I can then upload into my higher level cortex.)I learned a lot of what I know about tech (the practical knowledge anyway) from online discussion lists and forums.