I am super pumped about REI and Financial Independence (FI) but I want to "scrub the floors of the dinner before I own the dinner" and to do REI I need to understand REI. 

Finding good deals is becoming more and more difficult in today's market.Rehabbers are fighting over properties and margins are becoming thinner and thinner.During dinner last night with an attorney who is well-connected with hedge funds here in Chicago, I learned a very interesting secret.

"Like" friends pictures of dinner etc and occasionally mention real estate.

It can sometimes be inspiring, or at least illuminating...GOOD BONESby Maggie SmithLife is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children.

@Darrin Carey - I have a conflict on Mondays that generally prevents me from making a 6:00 dinner and networking (although I may be able to appear briefly until about 6:30).

If you are interested, I'm grabbing dinner with an investor friend on August 4th in OneLoudoun if you care to join.

It might make thanksgiving dinner a little rough. 

I will buy dinner or drinks or both!!

My dad responded by caretaking the son, driving him places, buying the tenant dinner, and so on.

Winner, winner sounds like a big chicken dinner.