Land investing is generally a smaller part of the portfolio.The reason is you are not depreciating the land for taxes and have intensive carrying costs ( money going out but nothing going in ) until you sell off the site or develop it yourself.A commercial piece of land could sell in 1 year or 10 years.

My question is:If I include in my direct mail piece that I will offer a cash referral fee to someone if they refer someone they may know who is a motivated seller to work with me and we end up purchasing the home Is that considered bid dogging?

At the point when the insurance agent sends the quote to the end buyer, am I then done with the insurance piece?

Buy a mobile home on a piece of land.  

I just got off the phone with a couple of prospective sellers who called in response to my direct mail piece.

We were both doubtful that all the pieces would fall into place with the looming deadline, but somehow they did!

as long as it's the desktop version you should be able to set up multiple companies.Quickbooks is a great piece of software when you use it correctly but it has a big learning curve, I strongly suggest you hire a quickbooks pro to set up your companies and classes for each individual property and teach you how to post properly they usually charge about $50 an hour should take about 3 hours depending on how much basic accounting you already know.Hope this helps, Good luck

Another piece of advice, don't spend any more money on the "Gurus".

I'm currently spending majority of my time in podcasts, and reading, but realized quickly that communication and networking is a key piece of the successful investor.What's your long term goal?

My units are in B- to C areas, so the apartments don't show like magazine show pieces when occupied.