In BR the Red Stick REIA and The Ring are great and in NOLA their is the Westbank Real Estate Investors, Northshore REIA and NOREIA.

I would suggest keep learning and dig deep on the one real estate strategy you selected to pursue. 

I paid for the subscription for a few months and drew my own custom Google maps areas and color coded them red/yellow/green based on a "grade" I felt came from a few metrics like crime/average household income/etcI also really like realtors dot com new maps, if you search for an address and click on the map and then go to the top left and choose the Value slider it will give you a nice color coded map of which areas of a neighborhood are higher valued.

Huge Red Flag for me!

Of course, BP is known for being deep. 

And always check social media for red flags and I agree with Vince, always meet a person.  

No Fraud.Thanks for your 'deep-dive' into Victor's situation. 

Pick one market and go deep.

@Brittney Yang first red flag is it doesn’t sound like he’s that interested in long term holds but the primary reason for partnership is expertise in renovation and secondary reason is balance sheet and income to help get financing.Regarding reason one, I would offer to compensate him for his time in assisting you and have a very clear scope of what that responsibility is.  

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