If you are looking for a relaxed atmosphere to find answers to any questions you have about real estate investing I invite you to join our Meetup.com group Colorado Springs Real Estate Investing Club! 

Quote from @Jonathan Greene: All of your posts are sales techniques to drive business to you and you dial it back by making it like I was being mean to you.

Spam and spammers evolve - their techniques evolve, the posters change, the things that are being spammed change.

Agents may also have macro data on historical data, local median sale prices, absorption rate, etc to help with your analyses and projections.Networking/build a team: Attend local meetups, virtual meetups and stay active on forums like this.A lot of this will be done in front of a PC unfortunately but if you cut out the noise, you'll be able to maximize your time.Lastly, something that has helped me tremendously with respect to focus and improving efficiency is the pommodor technique. 

There are old style martial arts that are outdated for todays times and then there are progressive martial arts that use techniques for real world self defense.No legal advice given.         

@Luis MazaIf you struggle with a wholesaler, reach out for more, there's usually a dozen or so good wholesalers in every market in the land....In addition to that, as a business strategy I would say that a great thing any flipper can do is develop their own off-market seller marketing techniques.

Same pet, two different owners, can have two different outcomes.Haven't though of this yet, but Alecia Loveless' technique of putting in the lease that tenants pay for any/all pet damage is smart.

Also, if zoning restrictions were to be relaxed, could the area end up like others with abundant supply, potentially leading to a decrease in property values?

Knowledge of techniques and terminology is great - but if you don't take action, all is lost.

The hope is to build experience and open more doors in the future for new builds.I also just had lunch with a banker on Friday who said they have been opening up and relaxing on real estate again…for everything except non-owner occupied construction - that is still a no go for them.