IN order to have a successful direct mail campaign, be clear on your investment objectives and based on this, you can target the right sellers with the right marketing piece.

That way, you can objectively weigh the risk-reward tradeoff of the various options available to you. 

I have come to believe that in order for each party to meet their respective objectives both sides must meet in the "reasonable" middle.

Within 2 days was approved and received my Articles of Organization. 

We attended an OZ Conference in Portland, Oregon where they already have a few projects up a running and have talked with a few contacts about setting up a fund.If you are genuinely interested I would love to connect you with the owner/organizer of the conference.

They were meaningful to me as objects - I spent a lot of my young boy days assembling the collection of Mantles, Mays, Clementes, and the like - and they've experienced massive appreciation, which is nice.

I'm getting shiny object syndrome again.....urgh.

Also, for those of you located in Connecticut, are there any good networking groups/organizations that I could get involved in? 

It may violate all sales rules, but I tell new investors fairly regularly not to invest when I feel their objectives are misaligned with the fund we are offering.

Only only one tenant objected and they had a good rental history so I continued to rent to them.