In addition, I have sifted through the city's website and cannot find anything that said a wood privacy fence cannot be erected in a flood zone (giving him the benefit of the doubt here).My question is if they come back and say that it must be taken down what should I do?

Aben,Honestly it really depends on the MLS, for example our MLS in Central Oregon pushes our listings out to approx. 2000 websites, so for $45 a month in MLS dues we see that as a great investment and also guarantees us our cooperating compensation.

Go the city web site and search for "contractors" or give them a call during office hours and ask for instructions.

What are the best options I have in terms of websites and resources?

If so, what are the recommend websites?

Secondly, it’s easy to find a buyer for a hotel as well as 100, 200, and 300 unit apartments, I see it happen everyday on connected investors website.

(We can debate alcohol as a social lubricant another time and whether or not it really makes me more charming).After a while, I would talk to the same 3-4 people each time and eventually friendships - and later, business partnerships - blossomed.  

I have built a website tested one fb campaign that didn't have much success mainly because I was learning how to use it for the first time and have no idea what I am doing except for watching YouTube University - (I did not advertise as thoroughly as I should have with updating all the fb page info also) and have posted on craigslist and received one call from a non motivated seller looking to just get an evaluation of his property's worth.

I am using several websites like Zillow and realtor.

If you have any recommendations on books or websites about setting up business that you have used, I would be interested to know that as well.