No pitch, no memberships, always good speakers, and tons of networking.

And Brandon Turner has been a speaker twice.

It’s largely residential focused just because that’s the background of most of the members (small residential landlords).But there’s some commercial background/experience as well, and at least once a year there’s a main speaker who’s commercial oriented.Outside of RIREIG I know there’s also an IREM chapter for Rhode Island (iremri.org) and I believe they even have a podcast so that’s definitely something to check out.There’s a commercial offshoot of the RI MLS called RICIE (Rhode Island Commercial information Exchange) which was sort of the RI MLS answer to Loopnet but it’s had mixed success since a lot of the residential agents seem to dislike that MLS forces them to pay for a separate system when the residential and commercial system used to be the same.The RI association of Realtors (RIAR) does have classes throughout the year though so if no one else chimes in with more resources here, one thing you could do is attend some of the commercial oriented classes (there’s a slight upcharge for non agents but they are open to the public) and network with the speakers and attendees in this event classes.

I had the good fortune to be the guest speaker this month at My  Rarebird real estate investors club here in Portland. 

Do your Sub Contractors have the ability to verbally communicate, with English Language Only Speakers?

And there are many people, my wife included, who are 100% against smart locks, and generally tries to limit screens and always-on speakers all over the place.

Allow 10 people to sign on to interact with the speaker. 

  :)The last BP meetup grew to at least 50 maybe more, had speakers etc. 

When people ask where did I find people I buy from - I tell them I was listening to a podcast around the holidays and the speaker was thanking a bunch of people - low and behold the majority of those people were asset managers who sell assets. 

This group talks about various real estate investing related topics and touches base every month on the real estate market and interest rates before going on to the months main topic and guest speaker.