At a community meeting for seniors an attendee brought up our letter and asked the law enforcement representative if this was some sort of scam to take advantage of the elderly. 

I have no connection or interest in any of these REIAs beyond having been an attendee at each.

according to a book that I just read.A number of years ago I went to a big real estate investors convention with 1,500 attendees; there they did a survey and about 1/3 didn't own any real estate, about 1/3 only owned their personal residence, and remaining 1/3 own at least ONE real estate investment.