Success in networking story

[Pyrrha Rivers]

Hello BP,

Happy belated Thanksgiving!

I want to share with you what I consider a success story in BP networking.

A bit of background about me to put things in perspective for you.

I am a teacher by day and investor by evenings, weekends and summers.

Living abroad in Asia presents a great challenge for my investing in the Atlanta metropolitan area. I have spent the better part of the last year trying to find likeminded individuals in the area to help keep me motivated and to have people around who don’t all think I’m a complete lunatic for investing in real estate, especially from a distance. (This is how many of teaching my colleagues feel). ^^

Reading through posts I came across Dan Ryu’s very successful Seoul Meetup.

I contacted Dan to get some pointers and he very generously encouraged me to start a meetup in my area. I didn’t think it would happen but I tried it and I now have two very nice investor colleagues to talk to. Dan continues to encourage me with ideas to help my group grow.

I live in Japan and Dan is based in Seoul. The opportunity presented itself for me to meet Dan as I was going to Seoul to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends. I thought he was just being polite when he said in his forum posts “if you’re ever in Seoul I would like to meet you.” I felt it was a long shot but I decided to tell him that I would be there. Well, he was not just being polite! He arranged a meetup at a convenient time during my visit and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with a few of his many meetup members. The conversation was quite interesting, diverse and so thoroughly enjoyable that time flew by. 

I enjoyed it so much that I think that whenever I travel I will try to arrange a meeting with a local investor to share some time and ideas. I encourage you to do the same.

Thank you @Daniel Ryu for the inspiration and hospitality in the Land of the Morning Calm.

Do you have a networking success story to share? I would love to learn from your experience.