Interested to hear your thoughts. https://www.moneysourceamerica...Go to Civic Financial Group.. scroll down to the bottom of their website  See all their licenses prominently displayed this is a for real lender.Now some states don't require licenses for Commercial fix and flip loans on 1 to 4 units.. but  as i said  CA NV OR certainly does.. so for that lender to say they lend there is something to check into..  

As stated above, you do have to sift through many who are full of it, by having a simple conversation with them, you'll typically be able to find out who's real and not.I've been utilizing FB groups as a resource as a wholesaler to connect with cash buyers and other serious wholesalers to build up my network to get my deals in front of more eyes that I wouldn't be able to do on my own otherwise.It is a double edge sword, you can use it for good or for mind numbing scrolling, best of luck!

the Pinellas County Property Appraiser's Office website makes it easy to check your flood zone. use the Quick Search for your property's address, click search, scroll down to Miscellaneous Parcel Info, and the Evacuation Zone is listed. next to it is the Flood Zone, with a link to the flood map. use the +/- buttons on the map to find the Flood Zones (for example, Zone X, Zone AE 11, etc). this map was updated last year with the most updated Flood Zones based on FEMA LIDAR mapping. https://www.pcpao.gov/this only lists the Flood Zone for the property. 

The face to face interaction will stop more people in the scroll because it looks less like the traditional ads they are seeing every 3 posts which gives you a few extra seconds to win them over with some copy and see how long you can keep them engaged.The reason why I see campaigns on Facebook so great for Real Estate Investors is because of the Reach factor & the Retargeting.

Here is a post I did that might help you (scroll down to calculating ROE):https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/1108744-how-t...

Substitute Bigger Pockets for Facebook scroll time.

It took me maybe a total of 2 hours to make connections, scroll for content, and ask the questions I needed to move forward.

I scrolled right past this initially because this question gets asked pretty much daily, but what the hell. 

Here is how it works (scroll down to #7 and 8 if you don't want to read the whole post): https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

Select that, scroll down to The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs by J Scott, buy that, and read that.