Best Northwest/West Coast Note Investor Meetup Groups?

[Jared Sommer]

I started my legal career in 2002 representing WFB on their commercial workouts, note dispositions and commercial collections in State and Federal Bankruptcy Courts and after a few years moved over to representing Albertsons in various commercial real estate matters and mergers and acquisitions.  I have been learning as much as I can about the note industry so I can transition out of stocks to note investing through a self directed retirement account.  

I want to listen to the advice from many of the experts in this forum on networking, joining a meetup and trying to establish relationships.  

The problem I'm having is I'm in Boise, Idaho which is a great place to live but I'm not finding any note investing groups.  I see some meetups in larger western/northwest cities I can get easy hour flights to and was hoping to get some advice on which groups would be the most worthwhile.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. I don't know if they'll read this but I know some of them are on these forums so I want to give a sincere thank you to so many that have shared their knowledge through their books and podcasts listed below.

-Joshua Andrews and his book, "Paper Profits" (great, easy to understand book).

-Gordon Moss and his book, "Performance Anxiety" (great book with one of the all time best titles . . . but I got quite a few stares while reading at lunch).

-Dave Van Horn and his book, "Note Investing."

-Fuquan Bilal and his book, "Turning Distress into Success" and all his NNG podcasts.

-Sherman Arnowitz and his book, "The Art of Investing."

-Jimmy Napier and his book, "Investing in debt."

-Scott Carson and all his great videos at We Close Notes

-The Note MBA Podcast.

Thank you all.

Jared W. Sommer

[Dave Van Horn]

Hi @Jared Sommer,

Appreciate you mentioning my book!

 I would suggest looking into the note conferences other individual note buyers are attending here on BP. I often see NoteExpo in Dallas TX, the Distressed Debt Conference in Newark NJ, and Papersource in Vegas mentioned by others (and if you search these conference names, you can see other members' reviews of each).

@Bob Malecki might have some recommendations for groups in the Pacific Northwest area.

@Martin Saenz Also runs a very popular facebook group at the moment that's worth checking out called "Note Investing Made Easier"

Also, I always suggest that if you can't find a group that fits your own needs, then start one! You may be surprised how many people in your area that are looking for the same thing.