Hello BP Community, I've recently learned that there are government agencies that give minority-owned, women-owned and new small businesses grants to help start their businesses.

They have an InvestHer meetup for women at the Panera Bread I think its on 17th street in Fort Lauderdale, I was always jelous that meetup seemed to open before everyone else after covid.

It's 3 women in their late 20's who pay rent on time and who have been very friendly.  

So far, I've not heard of fraudsters setting up an entire fake title company branch, so if you walk in and it feels like a title company and has a bunch of middle aged women in cubicles typing away and talking away on landline phones, with other couples and babies in strollers hanging out in the front waiting area type place, it's probably a title company.

BP is a great forum for learning and connecting - we were just talking about this last night at our Women's AZREIA Group.  

I took in two mid 40s women who were first time roommates.

I was perplexed, didn't these highly successful business men and women know that the paltry returns of real estate were minuscule compared to the stock market?

You must understand what they need and will consider as the norm before you can ever sell them on your abilities of being creative and increasing value in any transaction.We have a lot of "pitch" men or women in real estate, we have the get rich gurus, deal makers and many will use a pitch or slogan like, "find the deal the money will come" but that's really not true. 1. real deals are made, not found and 2. they generally lack entrepreneurial skills as they follow a system or routine, they don't really understand what is in the box before they try to think out of it.The fact is, you need to learn real estate, understand what it is that you have to offer, where value comes from for what you have to bargain with, show and demonstrate your knowledge, your entrepreneurial skills.

She is the Dean of Women and I am the Dean of Work Education & Operations. :)Been living in MN for lil over 3 years.

I noticed also that there are no calculations for CapEx, Repairs, PropMgt, Vacancy, ect, which would also increase your overall negative debt.In the words of Hip Hop artist Jay Z: "Men Lie, Women Lie...Numbers don't"