Once I was at the dinner table talking, I'd ask them what their goals are.

I know single family is my starting place and I would like to move up to apartments and commercial later on but I would like to offer my undivided attention and willingness to learn o and a few dinners too.

Offer to buy them dinner.

I am calling connected investors tech support line now. the operator picked up the phone by mistake but never answered it and left it on so I can hear all their background noise.so someone picked up the phone but never answered it but in the background I hear them said, "x_name_x, ill make you dinner later" connected investors tech support.I am still on the phone with CI. listening to the background noise and it sounds like this CI number leads to someone homes house landline.so in other words. connected investors has a lot of extensions, each extension either leads to someones home landline or to a cellphone. in this case, the extension I put in leads to their kitchen lol and this is the location their suppose to give ConnectedInvestors tech support from. and you can hear them chopping up veggies in the background lol or chopping up something

Decision making with only your own thoughts might not be as effective as researching what has been done.If he/she has been working on this, but you have no timelines, come up with one.Maybe forge a closer working relationship (with this instrumental team member) maybe have dinner to lunch together (maybe on a regular basis) and both talk about your issues.Sometimes people are introverted (but talented) and some extra effort has to be made to break the ice.just my 2 cents.

This is kind of like asking for the best way to cook dinner.

Online networking is cool but lets setup a light dinner face to face meeting.

They were planning to celebrate by going out for dinner on Saturday.

That's a big complex topic, and frankly while that's interesting, I'd rather spend my time finding properties, improving existing properties, researching and financing the next deal, or just enjoying a nice dinner, these are all things that I am better at (especially enjoying a nice dinner).  

If you want to do something nice, what I would recommend is going to the local grocery store, buying a gift card for that store so they can get groceries for their family for a week/month or make a nice holiday dinner for their family.