What he's blissfully unaware of is that his "solution" doesn't address his "problem".Your mission, should you decide to accept it Mr Phelps, is to discussion his problem with him until he offers you YOUR solution to his problem.

Our mission is to introduce potential & existing real estate investors to all areas of the industry in a positive environment to include products, courses, legislative awareness, strategies, and technologies.

I will take the time to find exactly what my mission statement should be for me and my family.

Paying it is a cost of acquisition paid out of closing, if it's not disclosed on the HUD or settlement statement then it is a violation, it also throws your tax filings off, it throws the depreciation off, it causes tax issues and violates settlement procedures.The birddog gets nailed for collecting it under the conditions mentioned.Why not put your birddog in your LLC, a limited member or employee and pay them for work accomplished, close in the LLC name and declare the cost on your books.There are usually viable alternatives to achieving a mission legally and ethically with just a bit more attention and effort. :)

Going with the area improvement mission is something the police dept. can support as well thereby giving good reason to help find a tenant!

Loaning money to any individual is not an acceptable investment.Folks have assumed you want to borrow from what I read, you said invest, you might be a stock broker, I have no idea what the plan is or was.Non-profits may invest so long as the investment meets legal restrictions.State law dictates, in the absence of state law, it becomes prudent judgment and the board of directors could become liable if grossly negligent, N/P boards are held in a pretty protect position, more so than a for profit entity, so the threshold of negligence can be pretty high.Prudent would be FDIC insured accounts or SIP, municipal bonds rated A or better, no stocks, no corporate bonds, government fed fund accounts or T-Bills, but this requires more money than we have here.N/Ps may not hold excess funds like a for profit, the funds held must be justified as to the need of meeting the stated mission.

I love your mission statement and I agree with you whole heartily!

"The real players" - tend to buy through mission capital, debtx, cbre's loan sales group, and auction.com.

In my opinion anything other than a .com you are wasting money.Years ago I did the .net,.org thing and was a waste of money.You can make a .net,.org successful but it is much harder to grow than a .comA big debate currently is .mobi domains for (mobile) applications.At first everyone was jumping on it but now I see big companies still use .com instead and they have a mobile version of their website that fits the phone screens.So if they have decided not to do .mobi than usually they have spent a bunch of money testing it.This is the same with commercial real estate.Developers watch to see if a Wal-mart if going in.Wal-mart spends massive amounts of money and time on feasibility studies that go out 5 years in site selection.So the little guys let Wal-mart do the heavy lifting with the studies.Targeted marketing always out pulls general sites.Take FOR INSTANCE biggerpockets.com.The message is a place for investors to meet up to discuss investing in real estate.That is the primary mission it seems to me.If it just said biggerrealestate.com and was a free for all for everything users would be pouring over content not relevant to them.So I would have multiple niches but FIRST get one niche going to where you have systems in place and on auto-pilot generating business every month THEN add another niche in to build multiple streams of revenue.You will have multiple sources of income when one stream dips a little the other is really good and they average out.It will also give you a trackable,salable business where you show the business generates xx on it's own.If YOU are the business then you have nothing to sell.

My mission is to find them.