I use to write notes on 3x5 cards of every creative technique I learned from all those seminars I attended, ideas from every real estate book I read and tapes I listened to.  

@Shannon Peace,I think you are referring to a technique that may bypass automatic reassessment for property taxes when selling the property.  

I'm sure I could make some kind of custom Google Maps later but wanted to see if there are any good ideas first.Any other tool/technique suggestions are appreciated as well!

Normally, they would say "what do you mean by that", which is a perfect opener for the various techniques I use (Subject, To, Wrap, Lease Option, etc) and that it didn't require fixing up the house or house "showings".

It is little money in and like any other investment, when done PROPERLY, ( you've got to know the actual technique not just think you know) it gives the returns you are asking about, safely and with great cash flow to boot. 

What marketing technique have you seen the biggest ROI from?

What makes a LLC useful is guidance from a licensed professional, tailoring of a LLC operating agreement suitable to your business needs, and a variety of other operational details such as properly maintained records, establishing banking, insurance, and other vendor relationships for the LLC correctly, etc.  

All these have advantages/disadvantages and work well for different funding goals.If you post a little more detail on what kind of deals you're looking to fund, the community here can give you much more tailored recommendations & referrals of specific lenders.  

When it comes to multi-family investment properties, the Zestimate in the parts of Allegheny County that I've studied is less accurate than it is when it comes to single-family homes, to the tune of 50% on target within 10%, 50% inaccurate in the scattershot way I've described.I would encourage you to think of the Zestimate as our outfit does, yet another tool in buying and selling properties, an independent statement of value that has outsized power over the decisions of casually-informed buyers and sellers, and even more importantly, a statement that can be manipulated to achieve your desired outcomes.So my thinking goes like this: when YOU buy and sell as an investor, especially one making make-or-break first moves, you have to learn how to do your own comparative value assessments, and you have to learn how to do them using the same detailed techniques that the most experienced and successful local wholesalers and foreclosure buyers use, not agents who have the time to "pull comps" for free for every fresh-faced lookie-lookie with a preliminary loan approval letter in their pocket.

I've really enjoyed listening to the podcasts and reading the forums for information on creative financing techniques which will become much more needed in the near future.