Black hat techniques are designed to try and fool and deceive Google, and will actually end up hurting your rankings. 

Be thorough or demand it to your hired property management company on their screening technique.  .  

All, what is your best marketing techniques that work for you?

We are looking forward to becoming excellent RE investors (buy and hold) using our equity position and creative acquisition techniques.

I want to become a rock star agent and I believe cold calling is a great marketing technique to explore besides door knocking and mass mailing. 

You can tailor this number to meet your needs and goals as well.My train of though on this is just because one rent may be higher than the other, a proportional amount should be put towards CapEx reserves for each property.

Do you tailor the space to a particular type of business or do you rehab it so that it is more or less a blank canvass? 

One of the options you have - if you get immediate possession before settlement - is to market the property for MORE than you paid for it - you could make a quick $10-20,000 within a few weeks - there are lots of moving parts in this technique - but if you call me - I will give you some ideas.I own a Auction Company in Baltimore.

Purchasing land in the path of progress is generally a long-term greedy play and many developers learn to "land bank" using various techniques to generate some cash flow on what is really a cash drain until you put the project in service. 

What techniques do you prefer to an investor like me and how do you do it?