This is a vibrant and caring community and you will find lots of advice and friendships here.One thing I was wondering is what you mean by "invest."

Like Bill Gulley said.If you find a commercial broker that you like, asked to start a friendship.

I love the passive income and being able to live a lifestyle I want, I also really enjoy renovating.So I've worked on putting my team together, I believe there are three parts to making up a good real estate team.1) Investors2) Maintenance / Property Managers3) BorrowersRight now, I really fall into the first category, my best friend is quickly becoming very good at doing renovations, taking courses to learn all the rules of the Landlord Tenant Act, courses on building bylaws, and watching pocket fives podcast to not make the same mistakes I did at first and many others have.I'm just looking to soak in all the knowledge I can on these forums and hopefully build some good friendships with the community.Cheers,Glenn

You never know when a simple new connection can turn into a business partnership, a friendship, or even just a regular coffee appointment for brainstorming and talking about the local market.I just met a newbie investor for coffee last week here in Raleigh.

If you would like to network, i'm also looking to learn and grow my friendships in this real estate space.

v=7zpWNB-Z1joand check around the 51 min. mark...The other option is to do commercial real estate, follow the operating agreement advice by starting a LLC with friends that become business partners, but even this can become a dicey situation situation, so you have to be willing to risk both the friendships and tons of credit/debt/money.

Ultimately, stay in communication and keep building your business relationship as well as friendship with them.Be honest with them.  

I plan on having a much larger portfolio with time and can hopefully build some friendships while I'm here!

Each year he "earns" equity and my 100% equity decreases a like amount.We agreed never to let the issues interfere with our friendship and we have an LLC and an operating agreement.

I've got strong connections with the economic development department in Fall River as well as a strong friendship with the mayor.