Also, with this new knowledge, be sure to second guess any TV show/Speaker/Investor that does not add these costs into their supposed profit.  

This month (because of a special speaker) if you can't get there by 6:30 or so, the room will likely be full with about 50 newbies and experienced investors in attendance and you'll be turned away (Tommy's is strict about the number of people in the room).  

Great sharing of info and fun/friendly with great connections and lots of interesting guest speakers. 

We have a guest speaker CPA also who specializes in real estate accounting and planning.

I definitely can't afford an American answering service/ call center yetI have a couple numbers set up-- 1 for property management, tenant calls, potential tenants and another for lead generation, buying commercial properties, contractors, vendors etcOne thing that's driving me nuts and confusing me is I have both numbers routing to my iPhone and GV doesn't tell me which number it's calling from to take, nor if it's a non- RE call directly to my iPhone.Anyways I'm thinking of the following VoIPs which can also integrate into direct marketing, Virtual Assistants (VAs- for this I've been searching Upwork and see rates at $6-7 for english speakers), and in the future implement a CRM (I currently use Buildium for tenants and Excel/ PropertyRadar for acquisitions and leads).What are the best VoIP/ GV alternatives?

Speakers or just networking?

@Jerry Yang - the only events that DIG has on Saturdays are additional paid trainings - things like rehab bus tours, national speaker in for a day, local experts training on certain topics.

He is a great guy who organizes meetups for folks in NYC from time to time and he always manages to bring in the most awesome guest speakers to chat with everyone.  

The guest speaker will be a local appraiser and will be giving his take on how to value homes in our local market.

It’s always so refreshing to hear a female guest speaker on the podcast!