Membership is $99 a year and you can pre-register at MAREI.org to get a free guest pass for the meeting.The calendar is packed with MAREI events, plus a few other smaller meetup groups that member's of MAREI host - Winvestors on Wednesdays at 9 am at Lucky Brew Grill, Women in Real Estate, Cash flow Game Night and 1st Saturday's Coffess.There is a wealth of information and knowledge in the people who attend all these events AND the speakers are great too.January - Learn How to Live the Life You Want NowFebruary - Learn Deal Making Strategies that the top 1% of Investors Know.March - Introduction to Investing in NotesApril - Debt Free for LilfeMay - We think Rehabbing Topics

Does your application ask if the applicants are smokers?  

Below is the one we got:https://www.lowes.com/pd/Fahrenheat-2-000-Watt-240-Volt-Forced-Air-Heater-10-5-in-L-x-12-25-in-H-Grille/1082595

Currently i require: non-smoker,income 3x rent with pay stub verification, no bankruptcy/felonies/evictions, 5 years rental history/good references, employment verification, submit to background credit check (i don't have any set policy on minumum credit score yet),1st month payment and security deposit due at signing, must comply with online payments. 

They usually are glad that I won't tolerate wild parties, drunks, smokers, overnight guests often, and all of the usual "bad" roommate traits.

If my GOAL was to be a real estate investor and I lived in a terrible market, then I would move to a more favorable market.passing out advice like your the "rental god" and what you say go's is not smart, and can be very misleading to investors in markets other than yours.It's ironic that you would make a statement like that when just a couple of months ago you were grilled by nearly every successful investor on another forum for spewing inaccurate nonsense.

It might even get people who are smokers to move out of the projects and find a private landlord willing to tolerate smoking.

Myself and a couple other local BP members have a meetup planned next Thursday the 14th in Cary at Rally Point Sport Grill from 6-9pm.

We have a monthly meet-up at Melt Bar & Grilled in Independence the last Thursday of every month (Thursday August 29th at 6:00pm). 

I generally interview a lot of candidates and I verbally decline/weed out those who just on the surface would not qualify (smoker, guy with 15 snakes, person trying to re-negotiate the rent down, someone asking me if an eviction will be a problem or if I plan on calling their last landlord, or asking about a payment grace period).