Throughout my many years of attending many REIA group meetings in and around Chicago, I can say that the #1 reason that I stopped attending these meetings was due to the atmosphere and no real meat/potatoes type of networking/sharing of information amongst the attendees and just more of the "guru investors" selling their materials.

Its small potatoes compared to his other projects.

Well as many of you know when working with a new lending relationship the amount of documentation required by the lender is no small sack of potatoes.

Are the potato processing plant and flight school still operational?

I retrained my tenant by getting it fixed and letting her know that she was responsible for the expense, so next time she will consciously think "I wonder if this should go in the disposal...maybe not" because it is now her expense not yours otherwise why not keep doing it.You said the washer/dryer hose came off, did you move the washer/dryer around and knock it loose...no the tenant did.The breaker/fuse tripped so someone overloaded the circuit, did you plug the hairdryer, fan, laptop, tv and sound system into one plug....no the tenant did.The sink got clogged, did you pour bacon grease/mud/potato peels down the drain...no the tenant did.I say all of this because the tenant has no reason to try to make sure they don't cause damage because they will just get it fixed free.

All of the firms that have come to the market with IPO's [hot potato] have underperformed their IPO offering price.

This "free" labor will gain you a ton of knowledge and maybe a deal or two just by osmosis.

And yes I think the wholesaler should be straight up honest in the beginning of the deal.So basically as an example for starters in wholesaling, starting, one can be a couch potato that has no job, little money, decides to put in some work for a while and make a first deal.

I'm too hands on and have had a huge challenge being small potatoes and out of state.

They don't have websites and they don't hang out on REI message boards.Justin probably knows that he's small potatoes compared to some of those groups