I don't know the whole conference schedule just yet, but I'm sure there will be a morning, lunch, evening where I'll have some free time.

I have a work conference that overlaps with the Summit but will be looking into travel arrangements to see if I can make the tail end at least.Cheers,Tracy

Or even over there phone conference calls would be great.

FYI, I just found a work related conference in Wichita next month for five days and I'm trying to get an approval from my manager to fly down there as a participant.

By 'Traveling' I mean they rented out conference rooms and hotel lobbies all over SD.

I recently joined a organization as a student called "snap-flip" after attending a real estate conference in my area.

These paths might be family, friends, co-workers to start....then moving to MF meetups, kids sports, hobbies, clubs; investing conferences; real estate investing sites like BP, etc.  

I hope to get to Oakland for the conference to achieve some of that. 

I've heard multiple times on podcasts, people that speak of large value from continued education, conferences, seminars, etc...

I suspect that we will all be waiting a lifetime to see rates back to were they were 2 to 4 years ago.. so I would not bank on that.. as for pricing.. if its a place to live then you certainly can just wait and see.. its not like your homeless or need to move other than you don't care for your neighbors.. markets always slow about now.. what will be telling in my mind is were we are at next Feb March April in the buying season as it were.I was in a conference this week here in Vegas and some of the speculation is that many of the commercial type loans that had 5 , 7 and 10 year calls  are going to stress those that had max leverage.. as the rates rise the cap rates rise to keep pace thereby devaluing the properties.. to the point some of these investors are going to need to bring some to significant amount of fresh capital to pay down their debt to get a refi.. and that will stress those assets and there could be a real buying opp in that sector.. at least that's what I gleaned from the talk I listened to yesterday... hope you find that dream home in the country !!!