The time to spend money on your training is when you seek niche specific expertise.The missing ingredient is massive, effective action.

You forget, this requires 2 ingredients; actual intelligent wisdom, and the desire to work for the people. 

People wil always need a place to stay.For the mtg r.e. business one must possess three main ingredients to complete 1 sale transaction.1.

But, before doing so, ensure that you have the ingredients to be successful and it begins with getting REI educated.Don't get bogged down with analysis paralysis.

There is one missing ingredient in the analysis, which is what the park will do when steered by a different owner.

Like the duck told the panda in Kung Fu Panda "There is no secret ingredients."

You'll find patches of iffy spots but you have to mix that in with your goals, saute the ingredients and come out with a solution that will put YOU where you want to be in 5, 10, 20 years.

I haven´t found a local REI club either and since you are the first person I find that shares the same enthusiasm as I do, let me tell you what I'm doing and I hope it might be useful for you.After doing a Market study about rents within different áreas that I thought would be profitable to invest (and within my possibilities) I used my credit and leverage a 39k, 25 year loan with a 7.25% rate and bought a small one floor house (72m2), the owner agreed to defer the 3k down payment into 10 monthly equal amounts.My project is placed in Merliot, which I believe has favorable ingredients like job sources, low crime rate, easy Access, universities, commercial malls and I think the “Diego de Holguin” will bring development to the área.

People get stuck in minutia with contracts, get the main ingredients agreed to, then they are more likely to sign without changing anything.

There's three major ingredients to a transaction....a qualified buyer, a house/real estate, cash or access to a loan.