I would love to shake some hands!

I shake hands and introduce myself.

Let me know if I can help you connect to any local professionals around here as I network constantly and am always happy to shake a new hand.

If you can shake loose a few hours, there are meet-ups of local investors that happen both in Seattle and on the East-side in the Bellevue-Kirkland area as well as one in Tacoma.

Here is the link to the article discussing events that may be some indication that the single family housing REIT's are headed.http://fortune.com/2015/09/25/housing-wall-street-...I am curios what everyones thoughts are on this and how the market may shake up over the next year or two as a result of Wall Street realizing they don't want to be landlords. 

Speak with everyone, shake some hands and let them know what you do and that you pay a cash referral fee for a closed deal! 

These wood shake roofs are now unlawful in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia to install, BUT, will a lender lend on a home with an existing wood shake roof that is in servicable condition in a lower risk area, to wit, a residential area in a city (Fresno)?

R: "No, no, no, no, no" (5 times - frowning and shaking his head)V: "R, listen.

When I think of how some of those are being setup most likely, I just shake my head.  

If an agent even sniffs that it can be hard for a newbie investor to shake that rep.