My friend @Julio Aguirre is doing quite a few flips on the south side of Chicago right now.  

https://www.meetup.com/dfw-flippers-and-funders/Also connecting to investor friendly local  realtors will help as they will themselves do flips as well

Thanks...from all of your REI friends.

Even if it takes you a year to pull down your first deal, you are killing it my friend!

Have also done work in DC and Maryland and would say Virginia has significant benefits over DC and Maryland because it is more business friendly and jurisdictions are willing to work with not against developers on projects I mentioned as well as you mentioned With the federal government and government contractors not going away - area is great for investment.

I'll be upfront- the nature of our interaction with our clients will also become more scale-friendly as we grow. 

Just wanted to say a warm and friendly hello to all in the community.

At that point I dont know investing would make any sense, I have heard scary stories I was thinking about short term rentals but that needs constant cleaning after guests and conpetition is very high my friend spent almost 200k out of pockets to buy a property for airbnb and he got 17 bookings per year....

There are opinions on these forums and people have a right to them and people may take it as criticism. real estate is not a business where everyone is friendly and just as you have shown from whoever was trying to scam you and has nothing to do with doing your best, its about being educated before moving forward. 

It results in tenant friendly laws.