Sellers automatically assume that you know more about the property than they do, so therefore it must be worth more than the price you are offering.

But I've also found gems in there and have rented units out to two different sets of tenants I found there, both of whom turned out to be great.The next "hot" service was Trulia and whatever other sites my ad automatically got posted on, through them. 

A lead I have to pay to fill in the form, or a lead that pays me to please make them on offer on their house.You need to shift your focus from getting leads to coming up with effective ways to target motivation.Paying people for every house you closed... what will happen is that people will just find anyone that may or may not sell their house.

If the focus is on cashflow, the focus might need to shift to full commercial (not MFR).

.), then the government will automatically charge you a 10% penalty.

Distributions are effectively just shifting money from one pocket to another for a SMLLC taxed as an S Corp.An S Corp is a "passthrough entity". 

Not an automatic disqualification, but definitely gets more scrutiny.

For the moment 75% of my portfolio has been shifted to MA because of logistical reasons and most of NH has migrated down here anyways creating a lot of demand for rentals. 

I would consider opening a vanguard mutual fund account and just leaking say $100 month there automatically forever.

Cash up front can be a sign of trouble, but is not automatically trouble.