Conducting Customer Development on BiggerPockets & TOS

[Aberham S. Dadi]

Hi,

I come from a finance background and currently work as a software developer. I became interested in real estate investing a year ago and began my learning journey. While doing that, I faced some hurdles around getting accurate economic, demographic, and real estate market data that didn't require a big software subscription and was also hyper local. So, I pieced together some personal technology work arounds.

I wanted to see if brand new to ~5th acquisition people in the space faced similar issues and figured this would be a great place to start. What I wanted to do was reach out to said people and ask for a 10-15 min interview to simply understand the problems they face, if any, around accurate economic, demographic, and real estate market data. I don't want to sell anything; I don't have anything to sell. This would just be to understand if I could make something of value for that mentioned group using the knowledge I gained in my personal journey.

Does anyone have any insights if asking for these short interviews would violate Bigger Pocket's no solicitation clause? The terms ask that you basically don't sell anything, and that's not what I want to do, but I'd rather not risk my PM privileges. Any feedback would be great, thank you!

p.s., if you fall into that category of investor, or simply are facing problems around getting accurate economic, demographic, and real estate market data, I would love to chat!