Be organized, polite but persistent, get a meeting with an examiner and leave with permit in hand.

You can find a way to submeter the utilities or else use RUBS to charge back to the tenants.

Put one in their mouth and rub them behind the ears.

There lies the rub though, they have “made me” successful.

Through all my organizations, business ventures and community involvement many of the people I know are not from this area.

Within 2 days was approved and received my Articles of Organization. 

We attended an OZ Conference in Portland, Oregon where they already have a few projects up a running and have talked with a few contacts about setting up a fund.If you are genuinely interested I would love to connect you with the owner/organizer of the conference.

Also, for those of you located in Connecticut, are there any good networking groups/organizations that I could get involved in? 

@Mike StahlmanFor a return with 4 rentals, it depends how organized your records are.

You might be able to drive some small amount of organic traffic using social media but it's very little and not worth it.