I would strongly recommend attending one or two so you can start networking and meeting people in the industry.

Everyone sold and most for retail money, so don't expect bargains or flipping profits. 

No saying where things go but much like your employer you can kind of see the industries picking up in NC.

Betting that is going to happen again while new smart participants have entered the market(sophisticated players like black rock) and retail (everyone who watches finance youtube knows about real estate) I think is a foolish bet.

This is an example of the fee structure in my state of PA :(some real estate transfers are exempt from realty transfer tax, including certain transfers among family members, to governmental units, between religious organizations, to shareholders or partners and to or from nonprofit industrial development agencies.

Parts of it didn’t age well, and is somewhat indicative of how the industry became into the position in which we find it today.

For most that have vanilla LLC's were they bought a rental put 20% down and own a few of them to me its over kill.when you move into larger multi million dollar deals then yes I see most folks buying those in separate LLCs.. but have partners who have only one and own HUGE holdings in the one company  shopping centers , MF  industrial tilt ups.. but with monster insurance. 

If you're in a town where there's only one major industry and that industry goes on hard times , your investment is going to be hurt.

I grew up here and for the last 10 years I've worked for a Fortune 200 company in a completely different industry.  

I also run a large community of bookkeepers who serve the REI industry.