I am currently a freelance camera operator and photographer, but my goal is to be a full time real estate investor within the next two years.

@Ryan Thomson This is excellent - thank you!

In fact, why am I paying $50,000 plus medical and retirement benefits for Joe when I can hire a virtual assistant from Mexico or the Philippines for 1/3 the cost that is just as qualified and speaks excellent English? 

Do NOT take action until you have a solid plan.Do not go driving for dollars just because most people tell you to do so, and because you need to take action.If you really want to take action you do this.1) Do research on all the lead generation strategies you can think of and put them in an excel spreadsheet.2) Find out what the cost /deal is.3) Find out what the Cognitive cost/deal is4) Pick the right method based on point 2, and 3, that works for you.5) Save up money till you have they (monetary) Cost/deal x a factor of safety around 1.5 6) THEN spend money/effort getting deals.No matter what the heck you do, if you do not start with these 6 steps you ARE WINGING IT!!!

In my own business I am a professional wedding photographer photographing weddings all over the East Coast and where ever else my clients need me.

More often than not, you are going to have to reformat the PID as 'text' if you are opening the file with Excel, and you will have to do it in the Power Query window to make it 'stick'.

Try this:http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/compliance/empverify.pdfAlso, if you need additional forms and anything related to landlording, check out the LPA.com and their excellent library of forms (http://www.thelpa.com/lpa/forms.html

Excellent advice Will.

Excellent work!

If you are handy with MS Excel, you can sort by listing price to screen out the highs and lows of the list, but you are going to need to do the grunt work from there.