I'm also a leader/mentor in my local REIA.I've worked with trial attorneys, done deeper than most study into the quest to use LLCs to isolate risk... 

Sell the ‘laggards’, keep the ‘leaders’.  

Plus if you are on a team, the team leader must be pretty good at what he/she does and you can learn from them. 

What matters is to have a consistent, multi-faceted strategy that you religiously follow, day in day out.

Homeless soup kitchen and religious education non-profit?

Nomadx, Inc - outdoor business directory Kizmet Health - health IT consulting company Squad Leaders - veteran transitional nonprofit

crucial conversations", Grant Cardone material (which we use in-house Grant Cardone University) , Keller Williams Scripts....there's just an abundance of stuff out there that will not only help you in your real estate career but also as a family, friend, employee, spouse or leader in your community.

It makes a big deal to marketing the house in that area as many of the buyers are Asian and for religious reasons will not buy a house that has had a death. 

I will say, at least 30 minutes to an hour of the time I was there were devoted to selling a Big VIP experience to some workshop that the leaders were hosting.

DiversificationPrior to the regulatory changes (about which I have written a book BTW, Leaders of the Crowd) you really did have to invest all your savings into one deal to get started.