One way we've tried to combat the scammers is to watermark our photos with our web address/phone.

It's about the 5th MF book i've read an a million hours of web content.

I was thinking about generating leads (through web and direct mail) and then giving the leads to an experienced closer. 

Probably easier to do with a user-friendly web scraper than an Excel macro, unless you're good at Excel macros :)

They are fairly simple depending on your level of experience with web design.

In los angeles, are you able to check for clear title on a house through a web site or do you have to go down to the courthouse?

Just here to share my experiences with Cameron Dunlap's ibuyhouses.com buy your territory system.After paying 3 months at $179 for my "Territory" I have ZERO leads, I requested a refund for the most recent charge, which has not settled at my bank, and the customer service operator stated "all charges are non refundable"Apparently they do no SEO for the site, and they expect you to  promote their site.My experience with Cameron Dunlap is to stay away, poor performance of the website and poor customer satisfaction.There are many other real estate lead web sites, I'm not going to mention any here, look around Bigger Pockets, which will return way better results than 0 leads.

They've been fantastic, and easy to use because everything is web based.

I was funding at the end of day 2, AND I have web and mobile apps to monitor the balance.

The selected listing agent may post some contact info in the window before it hits the web sites.