But in the business world that is collaboration and is expected.

I think there are 2-300 members and everyone has been very supportive and collaborative, helping each other grow through JVs, encouragement, and advice, etc.  

I had a question about the 2012 survey BiggerPockets ran in collaboration with Memphis invest.Specifically, in the following question, the percentage age up to more than 100% (129% to be exact) - does anyone know why that's the case?  

It can be a hangout at a physical location, or setup as online collaboration.

Wanting to collaborate with young contractors, agents, banks, lenders, etc.

@Vera Herlihy I would enjoy the opportunity to meet and collaborate with you as well. 

I do have an assignment of contract form to utilize and was expecting to start with wholesaling or collaborating on a flip.

The best practices rise to the top, and the others settle with the other residue.Investors are competing/collaborating for deals as software companies are competing/collaborating for mindshare, money, server footprints, and desktop RE (I couldn't resist that one :).

@Adam Gerig: Thanks Adam and looking forward to networking and collaborating with people on BP.

Every dollar not spent on something we can do ourselves is a dollar that can be put towards the program instead.That certainly doesn't preclude collaborating with other professionals (or I wouldn't be here!)