Plus, he'll be in a much better cash-flow position.Also, keeping the 15 year mortgage and forgoing the opportunity to pull out 100K as seed money for your real estate investment portfolio is the true "forever worker bees" mentality.

I have read a multitude of books and steadily soak up info from podcasts.

I've been reading up a storm here in all the different forums doing my best to soak up as much information as I can.

I knew he had rentals and it was a chance to 'plant a seed' that when he is ready to sell I want to talk.

I then came across Max Maxwell's videos as well on wholesaling and was soaking up everything I could.

I am trying to soak up as much as I can as fast as I can. 

Hi all of you smart investors.We are developers.We are start ups.We have good coaches incubating us.We have good professional teams backing us up.We have financing institutions backing us up.We have access to a R220 Billion property portfolio.We have identified a 4000 square meter land.Our strategy is to Rent to Develop to Rent.We have a storage tenant & parking tenant.Our development costs is R58 Million.We are gearing it 70/30 ratio.We need R1 933 333 million seed capital.We looking to raise seed capital from investors.We have no money to put down as we are start ups.We have a few investors in mind.In your opinion, what do you suggest we do to have them invest in us?

We very shortly settled on buy and hold rentals and started to soak up all the information we could get our hands on.

Meaning, that forging the relationship for the future by my seed planting was greater than the communication mistake.

This way, you already have planted your first seed which will grow to a tree with many other branches (aka referrals).