Plenty of problems with that, of course, but then again if this racket was easy everyone would be doing it......

Investing is not easy.

They are very easy to talk to and our very informed on theirparticular niche market4.

Appreciation is not spectacular (right now), but it is easy to buy a fourplex that will have positive cash flow with only 75% occupancy.

I've never used them for anything but the listings b/c I found it easy enough to develop a network of maintenance folks and handle it myself.

And, to clarify, you don't need an attorney to file the paperwork--that's easy--you should seek an attorney's advice BEFORE filing any paperwork to help you select the right entity structure(s) to accomplish your goal.

Its very easy, if you know what to do.

I am able to pull most of it for free from the county website, but it means that I have to manually search through the sales data to make sure that properties are in the same area (easily determined) and to make sure that they are similar types of properties (easy, but very time consuming!).

Its all webbased etc, no downloads - easy for the end customer to view basically.

All depends on what you negotiate.As a general rule of thumb if you use a property manager you will pay: -1 month's rent for Managment fees (rent collection, maintenance, financial, etc) -1 month's rent for Listing fees (advertising, screening tenants, lease signing)So, the easy-sneezy solution will cost you 2 months (16%-24%) of your rental income each year for a normal propert under a one year lease.