Flesh out the details, look for common themes throughout them so you know what kind of characteristics to do searches for.With an idea in your head of your ideal 5 and a list of characteristics you can sign up for use www.twellow.com which is like a searchable twitter directory where you can follow people you would like to follow you back.Josh is right, putting together a concentrated list can be just as much work as building one anywhere else, but having this list can help because your tweet stream from people you follow will give you a less fettered view of relevant tweets.If you look at Wendy Patton's twitter account you can tell she autofollows and has quite a staggering number of followers.

We launched a few important changes to the site tonight. 1 - Members can invite others, by email, to join any company in our companies directory, by clicking the invite link in the Employees section of a company's profile.

You might give me a call tomorrow, my company name is in this sites directory.

Go to www.narpm.org and search their directory (upper right) for property managers in your area.

The zip file with the digital versions of the books contains a directory of bonus files, including the excel spreadsheets work all the templates. 

For example if they don't appear on the school  directory as a  student I go back to find out why. 

We're building a directory here on BiggerPockets of Hard Money Lenders.If you are a HML, Please send me a PM with the following information so we can add you to the directory:COMPANY NAME:Contact Name:Phone:Email:Website:State(s) You Lend In:Loan Amounts Available:Program Details: (max. a few sentences)Other:Thanks!

Originally posted by Michael Culler:If you want a list of REO's and an easy way to find REO brokers in your area, just google this phrase: worlds largest REO directory Warning: You could spend days looking at property in there!

- There was a bug that caused some problems for some people viewing our articles directory, which has since been corrected.- We added some new forum moderator improvements.- More to come soon . . .

The Defer'Em tool listed in the software directory (http://www.biggerpockets.com/software.htm) is very useful, I recommend you use it to plan ahead for 1031 exchanges.