They also do year end summaries, interest reporting to the IRS and free up time for you to concentrate on finding new opportunities knowing the 'back office' tasks are being handled.

Now that they are gone (strange folks), there is severe cigarette smoke odor concentrated in one of the 2nd floor bedrooms, also affecting the hallway.

In my opinion we have bad public policy in this country that leads to an over concentration of poor people in many urban areas, which then leads to high crime, substance abuse, poor schools, etc.  

@Ryder Meehan has a fun meetup in SF - but mainly focused out of state (except this next meetup's cannabis RE theme ;) And make it down to Milpitas for @Johnson H.'

Concentrating on assisting others will only be a distraction until you achieve your own personal success goals. 

Except for some in Texas, they seem to concentrate in low growth areas.  

FYI: a bank's appetite for loans has many factors: portfolio concentration, industry expertise, availability of funds/balance sheet to lend, legal lending limit (capitalization), local competition, cost of fund, etc. 

In terms of the real estate, concentrate on the passive investments as mentioned above: notes, NNN leases, syndications.

I believe in spreading the wealth and vehemently oppose any concentration of wealth in few hands, including tax lien sales and farmland ownership.

I would concentrate on providing professional quality advice and solutions rather than just spreading bad news.