I was flipping at the time but I wasn't effected all that much because I didn't chase deals and I was naturally a lot smaller when the crash eventually came. 

The nature of the business is that there will be some sketchy reviews because it is hard to please everyone...tenants often complain unfairly on social media and owners also get mad when the PM follows the law and not the owner's wishes...but...also, bear in mind that reviews do matter...ask your PM to provide you with 2 or 3 current owners and CALL them. 

Quick math, if you were paying ~$400 per month in oil and now the tenants will just pay direct for natural gas via the utility company, that is $4,800 per year.

So I have to ask, are you at the natural limits of the model?

To kind of piggyback on a lot the other's insights.With a lot of things in real estate, it goes through cycles, and Notes and Tax instruments are no different.In that every couple of years, a guru will hype up the "passive" nature of Notes and Tax investments, and how you can buy properties for "pennies on the dollar!!".

I come from an IT background so it was somewhat second nature for me to try using internet archives. 

It’s natural gas now and I have no idea what hennit was converted.  

Once you have that mentality that you aren't too proud to do anything, find one or two friends who naturally have what you don't, be that money, experience, or moxy, and form an LLC to buy and hold houses.Even if you and your friends get the worst deals in the world and you're only able to afford one property a year, if you simply buy and hold houses, by the time you're 35, you'll have 17 properties bought and rented.At that point, you and your partners can dissolve the business, split the properties, and continue to accumulate properties solo.

The natural thought here is they got a higher offer.

I want to be able to have access to certain parts of the MLS and not wait around for my realtor whenever I want to see a house is my main motivation, but I was in sales before my transition to IT and also had the idea of becoming a showing agent or something of that nature to get me more natural exposure to the market and for a way of networking.