I have a good relationship with my current vendor, so I defer to their judgement on salting.

Nothing more important than pounding the streets and finding vendors doing actual work... 

.), it also does your accounting, allows you to take rent payments online from tenants, allows you to pay your vendors online, does your reporting etc.Even if you have only 5 units I think that is well worth it.

Coming from construction I am used to vendors being upfront with costs every step of the way.I expected this high price outfit to advise me on strategy and how to properly manage my rental income to maximize tax efficiency.

The vendor is wanting 225,000 or more per door.

Me I am doing 5 a month with a Vendor who is making 5 to 10k per deal on them they no fool with us.. :)3. the deals were good enough that I could do a HML at 65% ARV ( appraisal in hand remember) the borrower got their 75% refi with cash out and would usually do 2 to 4 at once.. so they would get 3 to 5k cash back at close so not uncommon to have NO money in the deal or very little.and within that 65% was my fees  was the flipper in the markets fees ( turn key operator) and the refi fee's on the new loans.. plus many used turnkey sales outfits who got their cut.. you know who those are we see them on BP a bunch.. that's how it worked.. end of the day investor had money in their jeans tax differed .. and 100 to 150 a month cash flow.. but then the GFC hit and in the markets we worked the values dropped like a rock vacancies went up and many of the investors were not properly capitalized and lost the properties to the banks.. and of course the ones who could not refi I had to step in and finish them.. 

And a MH on small acreage can appreciate nicely as well as a package.. we just did one for one of our vendors ( financed it for him) and that was in FLA on an Acre used Double wide and it sold for 185k..  

National insurance brokers too, and any other vendor that can be nationalized. 

Also know that some counties, (mine for example) use a third party vendor to facilitate the foreclosure and tax sale process.

We only work with repair vendors who provide before/after photos.