Engage a professional to consider your and your partners facts and circumstances before you start setting up companies.

The thing about this profile is it let's us engage with SO many people.

Engage an attorney to review the loan documents. 

Best place to look for investors are your local meetups, ask around, usually the more experienced players don't show up too often.

To be clear, I will go to Baltimore and will engage in these activities, but I want to make the best use of my time doing so.

That is one of the paramount reasons we have licensing laws.Any agent engaging in such activities should be reported to the proper authorities.

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for your area so you can start engaging with conversations in the forum that center on those neighborhoods - that can be a great way to connect with like minded folks pretty quickly.Also, f you haven't subscribed to the Bigger Pockets podcast yet, I can't recommend it highly enough.

2) Are you engaged in the trade or business of professional fishing? 

I kind of fell into that and I knew the person that rented my house...I will not be engaging in that again, I was lucky to have come out ahead.

I am a life long Hudson County resident and work there currently.While I have experience some experience in Real Estate, I am eager to learn more and hope to engage and learn as much as I can from the forums.