We still have a great school here (Mississippi Women's University) and obviously the base provides much of the business for the surrounding area and neither one of those are going anywhere.

That wasn’t totally it, this person gave me several pointers on the process of purchases and made every transaction an ease for me and empowering me on who I was with each deal and that this was a business “MY BUSINESS”.

I have been dabbling in sectional title property [the equivalent of condos] since 2003 but only became serious as an investor in early 2014 after reading "It's Rising Time", a book on investing for women by Kim Kyosaki.  

Don't want to rent to guys and I don't think its likely that I'll get women renters.

That was very inspiring Ann, I feel empowered to bring some people together and to chat about RE.

I will be in Knoxville, week of January 12 to learn about the City, attend the Tax Deed Auction, network with wholesalers, folks doing rehabs and other professionals in that industry.Hopefully, my time will be evenly divided between my two passions, seeing vacant or distressed buildings rejuvenated  and empowering people to choose sustainable solutions to pressing matters in a safe, affordable and private venue.Deborah B.

As such, to require one was discriminating against African American workers in the community because there was a higher percentage of this class that did not have HS diplomas as opposed to non-African Americans.A silly, but obvious example of this same idea would be that a company cannot randomly require all employees to be over 6' tall...because this inherently discriminates against women. 

So to all of you who have been planning and planning and taking no action, I encourage you to take that first step and know that whatever you have the faith to build, you empower to grow!

@Karen Margrave  door knocking is the way to go... when I worked the PDX market I had 3 teams one women one man ( women were better at this by far by the way) we knocked every NOD in our 3 county area.When I was in Timber we wrote very specific letters to timberland owners and did quite well with out of state owners.

Go to a few meeting (any FIBI, Club in Action, InvestClub for Women [and the Men Who Love Them], etc) and get a feel for what the locals are doing.