Consider your lifestyle and how much time you have available to devote to your passive income stream.2.Upfront Investment Another factor to consider when choosing a passive income stream in real estate is the upfront investment required.

A able to pull Valuation data from web sites like Redfin, Zillow, House, homelite etc.

My rep was very positive and professional and the web interface is clean and easy to use.  

Or, are you satisfied with just having a web presence?

This is something I plan to help change within the industry, and will soon be adding such training to my CPE offerings for them, because their is a need (as you're demonstrating by your post).If you're the DIY type at all, there is a web-based software tool that runs some very detailed analysis for you about different real estate scenarios, particularly for retirement planning.  

My understanding is the space must be exclusively devoted/used for business AND have a DBA (or other legal entity name) attached to the activity.CAVEAT EMPTOR:  This deduction ( I was told by my Calif CPA) is a red flag and frequently yields further tests by the IRS for the hobby-as-business ruse.

I personally believe a good sales agent (someone who devotes 100% of their time to the profession) is going to be more effective at selling my properties than I will.

It might be to prompt them to go to your website, so a clearly visible web address or QR code makes sense. 

We use SEO and see benefits from searches and people finding us on the web.

As with many other things, people overreact, misunderstand, and set up a huge cottage industry devoted to solving a problem that doesn't exist.