Are there websites or ways that a person could search for REI-related conferences/cruises/etc happening around the US/world?

I likened real estate similar to an electric trolley hanging and traveling across predetermined destination, that is hanging over a medium, which is an electrical cable.

You wouldnt have to call , the tenants would have a sticker on their front and rear window , When the tow company cruises by and sees a car without the sticker .

Read up on "arbitrage", then take it to another level.David J Dachtera"Success is not a destination.

As is true with most other vacation destinations in the world, there are some good investment properties here and a number of bad ones.  

@Don Ireland,You'll find RealtyTrac data a bit stale, kinda  Like both Zillow and Redfin.Such sources must mine the available data and update themselves - they are not active updated by the originators of the information.David J Dachtera"Success is not a destination.

You have all these people out there who are constantly beset on all sides by scammers posing as the IRS, Microsoft, Carnival Cruises, you name it, all these people fumbling around until they trick some poor sap into forking over their social security number.

I got the dual action cruise control so it drives its self as well. which makes for relaxing longer drives.

They have a great fishing related newsletter and tons of destination fishing related videos.

Being in San Diego it looks like I stubbed my toe by not checking out just about the closest ski destination to me!