I thought it would be a good time to hand out some pointers we often advise to clients on this:1.

For networking, I think I'll start just by attending a local real estate investor meeting and just listen and meet people, and hand out my business card.

@Reagan Clo sounds very suspect, especially as it’s usually very easy to check ownership through online public records, unless you own them in a LLC or trust where your name is not in the title, which you usually do for privacy, not to then hand out copies to strangers.

Just curious as there is always some other nifty piece of software with its hand out to reduce our net profits

Raymond, Go to your local REIA (Real Estate Investors Association) with handouts (color works best) about your deal.

The city even had a little handout for garage conversion, pertaining to achieving the proper R value for an in place slab. 

That's one hand out of my pocket. 

2/5 of those are due to people being stupid and looking for a handout1/5 of those are just unlucky situations and once again people looking for handouts USA is handout capital of the world

They have some events, virtual meetings, and in-person trade shows where it might be beneficial. 

If they own the printing presses, just turn them on and hand out money to everyone.