The whole point of text messaging is to make it easier to develop a relationship without picking up the phone so why people think obviously-similar mass texts to a whole database work is beyond me.I adjusted all of the text features inside my system to let them know that it is an automated text and why.

When a company president has to fire their administrative assistant for whatever reason, they don't throw in the towel and say they are now going to just answer the phones and manage the schedules themselves to avoid another experience like that.Also, I'll throw out here that the PM agreement doesn't have to be full-service.

(Have been poking around there for awhile, haven't bought yet, know a local PM who is a great guy and gotten alot of data from him, done alot of database research, been in escrow a few times, but never panned out) Not a complete noob, but also very far from anything resembling really knowledgable.So i am looking at a property, 3/3 2800 sf poolhouse on acreage, has all (or many) of the desireable characteristics that one would want in this market.

This is the best place to start with building your database @Jason K.  

I used to use mytracks then switched to birddogg (I think it was called) after a while I created an app through my small team that monitors my sites and crm it took like 3 weeks and cost a few grand, worked well had all the features of mytracks mixed with birddog but eventually I just found mailing to everyone with equity in the area worked best and scrubbing the list with the usps vacant house database worked way easier. 

If you are good with Access you can build a nicer looking database.  

Look up the MLS database through redfin, and see who is selling and buying in your areas. 

This is an administrative overhead issue to keep straight. 

Where people run into problems is when they are looking to perform the transaction where something in it is not on the up and up or if it violates laws.Escrow is the third party administrator of the transaction, title is who checks the liens, records the grant deed (and any trust deeds for loans), etc.

However, you need to be mindful that there are additional administrative costs for having an S-Corp(Separate tax filing, payroll filing).It only makes sense to have an S-corp if the tax savings will be in excess of the admin costs.