The best way to get business and it goes against what you will hear through social media and other technology driven mediums is the old fashioned way.

Having recently resigned from my position as a credit manager, I'm considering real estate investment as an potential career change.I have a BBA and MBA, both in finance, and 20+ years of experience in the energy, technology, and mining sectors doing everything from treasury to financial planning & analysis to M&A integration, which I expect to be helpful in deal analysis.I currently have a fair amount of capital to get started, though some of it has to cover living expenses until I can generate positive cash flow.

Just got an email that the two largest giants of outsourcing will be merging together.I think there's better quality foreigners on Odesk and better American quality workers on Elance.Hope the technology sees a huge boost!

Desktop evaluation is a huge advantage with today's technology and it can save you a lot of wasted gas, but you never really know if you have a deal until somebody puts eyes on that property and the neighborhood.

Thanks for the tips @Brandon Turner I have to say the technology use in this site is outstanding.

I also own a small IT hosting company, which really comes in handy as I don't have many technology issues and am usually a bit ahead of the curve.

You need to be open minded and able to adapt to change to succeed.If no one ever adapted to change or figured out new technology or techniques we would all still be cavemen!

Hi,I was brought to this site via an interesting topic on Investor Verification and how that now works with the JOBS Act coming full force.I am heavily involved in the crowdfunding space and I plan to be very active in the real estate crowdfunding thread, and offering any insights that I can.I think "crowdbuilding" has a major place in this industry, and can't wait to see it grow, let alone see Americans everywhere (non-accredited investors) invest into real estate and become very aware of how fun and rewarding it can be.In turn, it looks like I will learn a lot here about the technology and trends that are happening.

I love technology and have done many things online.

The reason is the carrier could go out of business, merge, hop to a better tower, technology could render the tower obsolete, etc.