Or do you need to seek out other alternatives for financing such private money, hard money loans.

If you currently have your home listed for sale and/or rent-to-own on ANY popular website (CraigsList, Rental Properties, Buy Owner, etc.) please be aware of a scam that has been making the rounds for most of this past year.This specific scam is originating out of cyber cafes located in the little known Republic of Liberia (you are probably more familiar with the Republic of Nigeria to the east, and the popular e:mail scams that promise huge payouts from the Nigerian lottery, or requests from a Nigerian diplomat who needs assistance in moving cash out of his country).

Alternatively, they may sell the loan in a pool of other loans and be done with it, especially if insured.Chasing turtles is only profitable when you know how to make turtle soup.

As far as a broker who has properties and alternative real estate investments @Leslie Pappasis one such and they typically are not regionalized.If you are looking for a qualified intermediary to perform a 1031 exchange for you than any national QI with a good track record can help you out.  

Do not renew if it bothers you this much or alternately try ignoring and see if it stops.

It does have a very good upside to it but if you read what I wrote will not have the popularity of Royal Oak or Ferndale.  

I guess, another alternative to replacing it would be to just fix the bad joints and holes.

The denial, the forced optimism, the groundless hope, the inability to look squarely at the facts, the flights of fancy, alternating with bouts of despair.

Quickbooks seems to be a very popular tool for tracking income and expenses, however, before I commit to Quickbooks... in your opinion, what is the biggest disadvantage of using QuickBooks for rental properties?

With STR you can get better ROI the LTR, but a lot of the popular vacation areas have strict STR rules witch in turn is making the STR properties worth more.