If that's okay with you.Banks are a lot more cautious nowaday, most of the lenders are lending at 50 to 65% LTV for investments.

@Alex Dem, @Joshua Dorkin, and @Brandon TurnerI agree visits on page would suffer, but I would rather visit other forum pages, and only go to podcast pages after listening.Also phones have huge storages nowadays it only takes about 20Gb for all the podcasts which is with 200Gb+ memory cards it is nothing, but if you stuck with old Iphone you can always copy 50-100 at a time.even Zip files are OK on phones with a link to some unpacking app for people who don't know.

As far as getting everybody in a tizzy goes, I will chance offending my fellow Realtors by comparing many of them to a flock of shore birds zig zagging down the beach, only knowing that they are following their leader as he promotes the latest buzz words.

Their reference is usually a strong indicator of how the tenant will be at your property.That's getting tougher to do nowadays, at least for us.

At the last one I went to a few years ago one of the old-timer REO kings in our area said nowadays to make connections you have to plunk down some serious cash wining & dining, golf, strip clubs, etc.

The TDs I invested in were deals put together by 21st Century Financial. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/02/04/1471145/biz-buzz-hard-money-lender-reportedly.html

And then it grew from there.Some tips to grow it:* Send out recaps of your meetings* Try to get experienced meetup members to talk at meetups * We feature one virtual guest each time to increase our pool of potential speakers as well as to emphasize how much easier and connected the world is nowadays* Try to find local area experts - I'm sure there are lot of people who might be interested in investing in China as well or learning about property.

Then when the place is buzzing, the fear of loss will kick in.

So, if you hire a guy to mow your lawn, and you are a marketer to motivated sellers, then when that guy comes to mow your lawn, spend the exact same amount of time working on a captivating headline or figuring out a list to mail to the whole time you hear that engine buzzing around your yard.

I think nowadays more people are aware of what virtual office space is and how to work it and really a Virtual office space can help you in your business.