After that, they have been patched on, painted over, glued shut, and oiled infrequently.

depends of course but I hear people looking for paper losses a lot of times invest in oil and gas - of course the investment is just as important as the paper loss as I know people who invested in MF past few years to get depreciation and losses and then they lost their entire investment and then had uncle sam banging on their door clawing back the depreciation they took as well.So whatever you do make sure you are nont solely investing because you can write it off but it still needs to be a sold investment.

I am not saying the content provided is not valuable or what I will call the "guru selling snake oil".

Property is running like a well oiled machine and we are paying quarterly distributions to investors.

Those with high counts often specialize and have a well-oiled-machine to process those numbers. 

Take those funds and allocate capital on fueling your business further and keeping that pipeline operating like a well oiled machine. 

It's a mindset that beg's the snake-oil-salesman to enter the picture. 

Some common disputes I see are concerning the landlord failing to do his or her duties under the lease (e.g. make repairs); slip and falls by a tenant or a guest of the tenant; injuries caused by landlord's failure to properly exercise his or her duties; environmental issues at the property (typically commercial, e.g. alleged that an underground oil tank started leaking causing damage to business); disputes over the security deposit; illegal clauses in a lease; failure to reimburse the tenant for a repair he or she made; Entering a tenant's property illegally; failing to disclose environmental issues such as lead paint; or trying to evict the tenant illegally.

If you do not have a property manager who will do it for you and you are going at it alone - I would hire an attorney - more because the amount of time and effort I would need to spend and having no experience at it.Its like changing the oil on your car - yes you can do it but if you have never done it - is it  worth learning or just having an attorney do it and do it right as if you do it wrong and screw it up (especially in massachusetts) - it can cost you time = money.

Think along the lines of an American oil company building a billion dollar drilling operation in an African nation that may not be 100% stable.