And there has recently been a spate of posts on BP from people claiming to do a variety of financing and a lot of them have turned out to have been false advertising.

The reason why you don't see them advertised by the big custodians is because the Solo K plan is not only self directed but also self managed.

I do on occasion out of general principal but I don't advertise the fact to any renters.

There are other places you might stick this, advertising, (an expense to gain a new tenant) legal expenses (paying off an existing contract) don't know your ledger entries/chart of accounts.

On all of your advertising you need to say UNDER NEW MANAGEMENTPut the sign on the building too!

The estimates I used were 30 year mortgage, 6% interest, property taxes at 2.5% of MLS-which I'm assuming would be close to the appraised value, $1000 property insurance, 30% for property management, $1000 for repairs and maintenance-it is new construction, $500/mo for utilities - electric and good cable, $1000 for accounting and legal, $279/yr for advertising on VRBO - though we wouldn't be paying this if we used PM, $700/mo HOA-quote from agent.What are we missing here???

I advertise on several large search engines like VRBO.

My qualifications are faily simple and put on my advertisements and applications.

Anyone have any experiences with the company Direct Buy, as always, if it seems to be too good to be true it probably is, as they normally advertise 50%+ percent off, but my thinking is even if i was to get 20 or 25% off, with the volume alot of people on this site do in rehabs and such, it would seem like a good deal still.

Also, expand your advertising.