Your name, license number,brokerage (if any) and license status is publicly available.The NAR,State Board,and local boards have agreements with suppliers to give your contact information away to them so they can advertise their services to you.Be prepared for an avalanche of emails and snail mail in the next few weeks.

I suggest that new be syndicators find someone that is successfully doing it and find a way to be of service to them.  

Save half the commission when you sell by using Realmart or a similar online MLS listing service, for a flat fee of a few hundred dollars they put you on the MLS and then realtors will bring buyers to you without you having to pay a listing agent of your own.

We also will have around 7 more SFR's within the next 8-10 years that will not require any out of pocket funds from us aside from legal fees to transfer ownership.I would like to begin focusing on flipping after summer of 2018 to build some larger cash reserves for purchasing more LTR's.

Invest all of the $25k loan into ETFs (spread out to achieve some dollar-cost-averaging) and continue to invest 50% of my income (minus the debt servicing cost).

Did you encounter any opposition or criticism of their services from an attorney or accountant?

I am not sure if they service where you live but I am sure he can offer some advice. 

Some consumer sites have better search functions and are certainly improving their services on a regular bases.It all depends on what you are looking for.

With a target customer segment in mind, then you set about developing a product or service that your customer is willing to pay for that consistently meets their needs better than the competition.When we bought our two SF rentals, I used that same approach.  

Also if it's currently occupied then you can perhaps count 75-100% of the income towards making the debt service payments but check with lender because I'm no expert on this!