I feel as though our inexperience made us easy targets.  

What type of areas are you targeting?

Some of these issues are rather straightforward, but depending on your tax situation there may be entity structures that you can implement that will make the investments more effective and tax efficient.

These strategies will be broken down to promote the brand and to market to specific target audiences to develop business for our key areas of focus for Real Estate Investing.Branding and Marketing Strategies Online Branding-Website1.Squeeze pages- lead capture sites-Social Media1.Facebook2.LinkedIn3.Google+-SEODirect Marketing-Clipper magazine ad-Small monthly circular mag/paper-We Buy Houses Signage on our building-Car magnetWOM Marketing-Pittsburgh REIA and ACREStrategies -Wholesaling-Rehab/Flip-Supportive Housing-Note Brokering/InvestingTarget Markets -Greater Pittsburgh area in 35mi. radius-Where are our buyers buying, wholesale or otherwiseCosts -What is budget?

Changes in legislation and even rule implementation within a department has been a major mover of markets. 

Dodd-Frank lays out some very broad restrictions & requirements and then charges the states with figuring out how they interpret Dodd's requirements and how they will implement them. 

That will allow you to target some of your marketing. 

What were your targets for the Direct Mail campaign and how did you find your buyer?

So, the properties held as assets would either have their titles transferred to the DBA name of the holding LLC or transferred to an anonymous/blind trust, which would only list the name of the trustee.The idea is to simply make you NOT a good target for a lawsuit. 

If you haven't yet- be sure to setup some "Keyword Alerts" to get into conversation in your target area.Seeya around!