I'm active here on the boards & blogging, I Podcast, I'm on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, I attend Meetups and have one, and I'm on Insta...Here are a few tips I can offer your Thought Leadership:1) be consistent because your listeners will expect an episode and you’ll want to deliver 2) as Gary Vee recommends “jab jab jab right hook”... after you start adding value ask for a rating and review.

Sound advice, I don’t think I’m the “Networking” type & I need to get in there & get the experience.Probably to just go & get my hands dirty helping someone in the Real Estate space solve their problems.My crossover experience is to get things done from a leadership role, more than from a networking facilitator.Thanks

v=REhg_bv7srMBefore lawyers were allowed to advertise back in the 1970s, they would join fraternal organizations and volunteer for a leadership position no one else wanted.

Also, check out Extreme Leadership by Jocko Willink.

But if Ferndale is small enough that the local officials haven't converted their mindset from "we are a neighborhood where we all belong" to "we are a growing community where lawsuits are just part of the process of leadership accountability"- well, I'd be concerned about legislative vendettas of a sort. 

Over the last few years I have been learning a lot about leadership and mentorship at the same time that I have been learning more and more about real estate.

Detroit has some very strong investors, and some REALLY cool architecture, and a lot of skill sets that might translate to specialty manufacturing and high tech.The leadership after decades of terrible corruption seems to be a improved.

That is terrible Scott but at least he had the guts to take leadership.  

@Peter Dascoulias IIis a leadership figure now so he's almost always there.

That's alotta No s, but what you are left with is great local content and great networking.We're big supporters of Bigger Pockets, and as a matter, of fact, while I had been in a leadership or ownership role of two other REIAs in the past, it was a conversation with Josh Dorkin that led to what Black Diamond is now.