Others are quite willing to share their experiences and make good recommendations or tell someone to run from someone else because of their practices.If you aren't familiar with Reddit, it's mainly just sub forums created by any user about any topic you can think of (and many you never would).

I am not necessarily seeking to use Real Estate Investments as an income (not currently anyway...).

But, unfortunately, it looks like the county doesn't provide the data for escrow and servicing companies, so it may be difficult to get the search granularity that you are looking for. http://www.co.st-clair.il.us/departments/treasurer/Pages/escrow.aspxIf you were in Wake county NC I could tell you using simple linux commands from normalized county data that there are only 639 quads in the county, almost all (599) in Raleigh.

There is a point where upgrades and extras won't command higher rent due to the other rents in the market.

If you really need one, Buildium is probably the most reasonable, from a pricing/user interface perspective.The best thing that could happen is for an investor/landlord/web developer think-tank to drill down on what features are crucial and what price makes sense.

I logged back in recently and it looks like users have to reapply to gain access to view credit reports.

Another Buildium user here.

Does anyone have experience with any programs for auto-posting on Craigslist, Backpage or other sites that user friendly and successful.

If for instance @Joseph Hammel's building is all one bedroom apartments and his tenants are not heavy electronics users (old people for instance) 60 amp service may be plenty.

Hello everyone,I originally joined BP a few years ago, but forgot about it and lost my user information along with the email I used!