Plus he offered to let me bounce questions off of him on future deals, even if they were with someone else.Mostly I want to thank him for making this easy, and for making me some money, his name is Will Barnard, I am sure all of you know him.

Or does it just seem that there is some significant growth given that there was hardly any competition in investing the last few years and we're just seeinga little bit of a bounce back finally?

Lurking is fine, but personally I learn a lot more from actually getting out there and asking (sometimes stupid) questions and bouncing ideas off of people.

I want to give a special thanks to Stephanie cause I was very much a victim of the " shiney object syndrome" bouncing from plan to plan.

I'm here in Houston and would live to bounce numbers and ideas so we can all help each other.

If one bounces, you may get hit with a fee.

I've been doing this successfully for a while now, but wouldn't mind having someone to bounce ideas off of, and to help hold me accountable.

I was wondering if there were any groups of people meeting from this site to bounce ideas off of, talk about real estate, land lording experience, etc.I'm hoping its people from all points of view of real estate (real estate agents, investors, brokers, land lords, property managers, etc.)Other areas seem to do lunch once a month just to meet in person and develop good networking opportunities in a smaller scope then BP.Hopefully there's already something going and I can jump in.

Listening to podcasts and reading blogs about investing.The great thing is that you can bounce ideas off your parents every now and then.

I've been looking for folks to meet up with who have been doing real estate for a while just to bounce ideas off of them.