There's only one place the city has legitimate money, and that's in its law abiding working class.

I vote for a podcast on this as well, after the basics are mastered this is the crucial step/process to growth and expansion.It also seems to be the most neglected one in all venues that deliver real estate education.I have attended many real estate conferences, but management systems and processes for growth and expansion are rarely touched upon.

If you're trying to set up entities and structure your entities and assets to give you asset protection, tax minimization or both, you are absolutely right that it will take a significant amount of work by your attorney or CPA or both.If you're trying to develop an operating agreement between two friendly partners, it will take a bunch of conversations to get that hashed out.If you're creating a private placement it will take weeks of work and tens of thousands of dollars.If you're trying to create an LLC to use to make offers for wholesaling, it will take you all of 5-10 minutes on the secretary of state's web site (at least here in CO) and on the IRA web site to have a legitimate LLC with a valid EIN.

Gives the legitimate one's a bad name.

There are many fake websites impersonating legitimate companies and some have been discussed here.

I am thinking I'll need to find a new location as that was my office conference room and I am thinking we'll need to move to an outside venue to be sure everyone feels comfortable. 

A legitimate RE agent is going to sign an agreement with the current owner, list the property on the MLS, present offers to the bank, and get paid BY THE BANK out of the proceeds when you close.

There are TOOOO many legitimate resources out here (BP being one of them to allow these predatory salesman take advantage of a new investor's lack of knowledge).2.

The Screening Guidelines document is a great tool to have a legitimate, non-discriminating reason to decline applicants.

My belief is that anyone analyzing their market needs to look slightly to the future, or at least stay solidly in the legitimate present to take advantage of opportunities.