Still, considering how difficult it is to find a good real estate focused accountant, limiting your search to local providers usually gives you too few options.Expand your search to include remote CPAs.

I'll only add when talking to brokers have a "buy box" defined and research commercial deals to understand it as best you can before you have your first meeting or your broker contact will likely consider you to be a low-chance buyer and not take you seriously.

(d) If you strike out on landing any on-market deals, you can search for off-market deals.

You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

It's gotta grab people, draw them in, stop them in there searching tracks.

The forums and search [box] is a free REI education.

I actually got introduced to BiggerPockets because I recently searched for REI audiobooks on Spotify that were free with my premium subscription and listen to How to Invest in Real Estate by Joshua Dorkin and Brandon Turner.

It checks all my boxes for potential.

I suggest you enter private money goldmine in search botton at top right of the screen and read the previous posts....here is one that gives good perspective as well as a link to legitimate private lenders.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/topics/1488...

start with one piece of land for one single family or a smaller development. or get the buy box of larger developers. why would they need to partner with you when they can do it on their own or find someone more experienced?