My recommendation: REITs are really a nice piece of diversity to add to an institutional (stock & bond) portfolio.

Whether it's an opportunity or a reason to run depends on what you discover.

That led to me discovering the BiggerPockets website and podcast which are both awesome.

I do want to make sure there is clean title and the contact states that only title issues discovered prior to closing will be remedied by the seller.Should I use my own title company at my expence or is title insurance the same through anyone?

But I would appreciate insight from those who may have done this or something similar in the past.MikeYou may need a limited power of attorney to communicate with the bank and for insurance matters.If you are on title as the trustee, you can sell the property, if those powers are granted in the trust document.Most institution lenders typically won't lend to a trust if you want to refinance.  

Okay - so I'm going to create 'landing pages' for my mailers... in working on this project, I discovered that my local assessor has a fairly rudimentary methodology for storing and calling their image archive for local properties...

And if you do get an institution to finally complete the refi, it could be a 2 to 3 month painful process.Be careful. 

However, I'm astounded to still discover that although most of the business owners that I know have bona fide, real, not canned websites and others either have none or a cursory attempt to check a box on the checklist-type of website.  

I was drawn to Bigger Pockets from the YouTube channel, then discovered how insightful the form was and fell in love.

Minh is closer to it than I, but I will get there through real estate.You have discovered through your associations a truth.