Navigating this site these days is a chore in it's self; the classic way of browsing each sub forum was very convenient and required far less clicks...please reconsider.

Once you go through all of the prompts you can then search or browse for FREE books and audio books.  

We have 2 different casinos being built in the next 2 consecutive years that are also billion dollar projects.

This doesn't encompass rehabs or big repairs, but for general (easy) number running-https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/01/1...For rehabs and estimates and stuff, you'd just throw those into the equations.Definitely only use the 50% rule for quick property browsing and nothing more.

If you haven't done so yet, you can browse the Podcasts and find those that deal with financing, etc.

Sold it 6 months later to a well know casino owner so he could build a place that was private for his celebrity acts to stay at.

Patrick,I'm just starting myself, but here is how I have managed to find a couple contacts.I was browsing through craiglist and found a home that I could tell had been fixed up for investment purposes and was being sold.

I'll give you an example, I almost wholesaled a piece of land that was about 20 minutes away from a couple of casinos and inevitably there was a lot of traffic that went by.

Because of this, I've been caught reading REI books, browsing the internet for great deals, or even making deals during some of our "off" time so, in essence, I've told my boss.

Well I did some digging on whitepages, and bingo I was able to find the sister in law, and cold called her (a first lol)Sister in law, really wanted nothing to do with the house and stated that the sister in law had a gambling problem and that the house was worth nothing because of the money owned to the casinos.