Wanted to share with you all on some updates below:Today, a new organization to promote the rights of San Jose rental owners was launched….San Jose Residents for Real Housing Solutions.

(Very important to creating another revenue stream to help pay down the debt.)None of them deliberately drew residents from the local area.All of the marketing was aimed at promoting a lifestyle rather than the cheaper price of homes.All of the communities were planned for 600+ sites. ( I sold some communities before we reached that number.)All of the financing of the homes was through a captive finance company which captured another income stream.All of the money to finance the development came from a general partnership rather than institutional lenders which allowed us to do things better because of a lack of demands an institution might have made.The three communities in Florida were retirement communities that were direct marketed to snowbirds in the upper midwest during December, January, February, and March.

@Al Williamson also promotes looking for other revenue streams from assets we already own or adding more revenue generating assets to our rental portfolio.

Instead of spamming the forums you should try to learn something and/or try to get involved and meet new people, that will have a better impact on your business then spamming the forums trying to promote pre-paid legal.

Paste that message on their facebook page, twitter, wherever they're promoting w/ social media, and I bet you they will be on it like snow on a cold Eric when he's locked out due to Smartkey!

I come from a family of realtors and lawyers (no jokes please :) ) and I just went and re- looked up the national realtors code of ethics: A few of the paragraphs might interest you:When representing a buyer, seller, landlord, tenant, or other client as an agent, REALTORS® pledge themselves to protect and promote the interests of their client.

I decided to take him up on his (10) free leads promotion for the program; and out of the (10) free leads, (5) were not vacant.

I vaguely remember on the BP Podcast some conversations about a non-binding, code-of-ethics type agreement promoting mutual respect between a new landlord and tenant -- above and beyond the lease agreement. 

I promoted him at work after everyone else passed him up.

I just spoke with a branch manager at UCBI and they will do HELOCs on single family rental properties...they treat them like second homes.  70% LTV, no closing costs, 2.75% promotional fixed rate for year 1, Prime - 0.25% after that for top tier credit, 10 year draw, penalty for closing within 3 years.