I use a variety of sources for my own search.

Mark,Charlotte's REIA club is called Metrolina REIA (www.metrolinareia.org) - this is a well run, very active real estate investment club, with subgroup opportunities throughout the month on a variety of topics.

And these lenders are not of the new micro-lending variety, like Kiva.org, these are local hard money lenders in India that are providing these loans to the farmers there.And if you’re complaining about the interest rates charged on private and hard money loans in the U.S., you are really going to fall out of your chair when you hear the interest rates charged by these private money lenders in India. 5-10% monthly!!

There are a variety of ways that you can get free help if you need it.You do *not* need to pay a credit monitoring service.

They have a variety of small claims cases, also over a decade plus ago.

You may need to use a PM at some point for a variety of reasons (you've purchased more property then you can manage yourself, you've been relocated out of the area, other job/time commitments, you suck at selecting/managing tenants, etc.).Also, future buyers will likely factor in PM costs when they do a proforma computation of the NOI of your property, which directly impacts what they're willing to pay.

They were also paying a variety of other significant expenses reliably; their cash-flow was *huge*, yet not stretching their resources.

Depending on your specific circumstances, the price of video security systems has really dropped making them accessible for a variety of purposes.

You need to understand what is happening with YOUR property.For marketing, I have always primarily used the local newspaper with the biggest ad section, then a variety of other free sources, including Craigslist which works very well here.

I answered your question(s) in regard to who/what/why.If a person wants to get in contact/communicate with me and/or my husband - they can very easily do so in a variety of fashions.You disagree.