@Mike Jakobczak So do you pretend to vendors that you are a local investor?

I plan on forming an LLC, having rental checks emailed to my work address or a PO Box, and pretty much pretending to be a fellow tenant.

The point to all of this is people need to quit pretending they know something when they don't.

Any ideas on what questions to ask to cut out the pretenders?

When I do a check on a tenant's landlord, I don't pretend I'm interested in anything other than identifying how they know the tenant.

Yes, there are many pretenders out there, I agree whole heatedly, calling themselves contractors because they took a test and passed a test.

I'll start off. Mine would be bulk reo's tapes then multipying until I was up to 100mil. Then I would go to Hong Kong and buy distressed Skyscappers and/or commercial buildings. Please share. The point of this thr...

I pretended like I was an idiot and asked about 100 questions.

Look at what's renting pretend to be interested in renting so you can see what your competition does.

You will learn much like - who are the players in your market, brokers, agents, loan guys, handy men and contractors( just drive by the properties) Take notes and then play "pretend a deal" like paper trading stocks, by using what you are learning to pretend your first deal without risking anythingbut kicking yourself in the pants for not actually doing it for real, should it turn out to be a GREAT deal!