Some tested their concept with a booth at the farmer's market before venturing into opening a restaurant, some taught at culinary arts schools, some created a restaurant/entertainment venue, some moved their business from a high rent area such as Portland's "The Pearl" to a more affordable rent area such as Vancouver's "Downtown" or "Uptown", some simply offered the city a cuisine that was not offered before.

. , @Justin Lovern , @Matt Good , @Miska Paulorinne , @Shawn Davis How about deciding a time and venue for the meetup?

http://www.redfin.com/CO/Denver/3962-S-Chase-Way-80235/home/34215876The house is magnificent, and the view is breath-taking.

Depending on your venue, 300k is not that much.

I play sports most of the day Choice of 45 golf courses-most free for life, 140 pickleball courts, 2000 clubs to be part of, listen to music at 3 different venues each evening and have almost all properties under great management with a personal assistant overseeing them.

My goal right now is to learn as much as I can from this site and other venues, then to possibly invest in additional real estate for rental income.

My point is, real estate is in part a safe and generally successful venue for long-term investment largely because it moves and changes at a glacial pace. 

You can see how slowly, over 100+++ years the democrats have inch by inch changed these once booming and magnificent metropolis into a welfare dependant state, with the mentality of the people changed over time to give up their liberty and freedoms for a handout, all in concert with the corrupt education system and its left wing teachers to indoctrinate the sheeple into the global community.

@William Skelley   As you state with crowd funding being the new model on the block its nice to see these companies come up and compete against traditional lending Venues and the HUGE one is an alternative to smaller builder developers or RE entrepreneurs that need capital and would have to try to do their own PPM type of raise.

In my experience, at least for long-term holdings, understanding and considering the long term effects of today's decisions will allow you to maximize your ROI over the life of your investment.NARPM offers a venue where (generally) multi-property PM's can share and learn from each other.