Additionally Vegas is one of the national leaders with regards to unemployment at about 15%.

I can set you up with a team leader in your area so that you can do some information gathering if you'd like. 

You will find potential investors by networking.Only after you are seen as a thought leader and an expert in your industry will investors come to you and will want to invest with you.I hope I've been of help.All the best!

They are NARPM members, and leaders in the Industry.  

You can essentially piggyback on the authority of the local news media and publications, and it will demonstrate to your investors that you have your finger on the pulse of the market.Here's some examples for you specifically in regards to Stockton:'Region's Outlook Bright, SJ Leaders Say'"John Solis, director of the San Joaquin Employment and Economic Development Department, said his department is working to ensure many residents stay employed, or find new positions for job seekers.Last year, his department hosted 84 job and resource fairs in an effort to find work for some 31,000 residents.

We were hands on and the tenants and their stories as to why they didn't have rent or couldn't pay rent after being good tenants for several years wore us down, dealing with Section 8 and the codes inspectors and their weird selection of our properties over the vacant city owned houses next door wore us down, and the city itself (Kansas City Missouri - which at one point sent us a bill for $100,000 in 1% earnings tax which (a) is not supposed to be charged on rental income and (b) would have meant we had earned over a Million dollars in rental income on our rental houses in 1 year) wore us down.As a local REIA leader I have fielded the calls from the out of state investor who bought a turn key property for way too much money and the turn key tenant stopped paying 60 days in had to be evicted and then had the house fully vandalized at about the 6 month mark and now had way too much money into a house that needed another $10,000 in vandalism repair to bring it back up to rental condition.  

I am contemplating meeting with community leaders and getting their input on their needs and views  so that I align my interest with bears.

I'm learning so much.Thanx to both of you for being great leaders.

Lisa Lopez the Group leader for Ocean County sub group and is a fantastic resource. 

JasonThe main reason we are having this discussion is the fact that lenders and their leaders are still brain dead.