I read everything I could about automotive facilities; spoke with brokers who had been involved in transactions in these type properties, and attended meetings, conferences, and joined associations of automotive repair shop owners4.

Being consistent is essential for establishing a successful thought leadership empire.

Not only is she an amazing coach for real estate investors and a very good friend of mine, but she is also my conference buffer.If I don’t have someone to meet somewhere every morning, I may skip.

I made it easy for potential investors to see themselves working with me by constantly giving away free content.Giving talks and writing a book (not yet published) were also big parts of building my thought leadership brand.

Please read my recent post in the Starting Out forum "Takeaways from REI Conference to my California friends."

I am actually going to one of the meetings next week, the REIF meeting next week which is Monthly High Point Meeting-Jax REIF10/15/2015 6:00:00 PM - 10/15/2015 9:00:00 PMRamada Hotel and Conference Center9150 Baymeadows Rd,Jacksonville, Florida,32256There website is http://www.reif-jacksonville.com/I chose REIF instead of JaxREIA because they are nonprofit and have no gurus or other's trying to push their agenda, but rather is more focused on networking and helping investors get started and analyze deals.Looking forward to seeing you on BiggerPockets and feel free to network with me locally in Jacksonville, FL.  

Probably the most productive day was when I took a personal day from my 9-5 and LLC'd a business, got a PO Box, created a website, had a conference calls with Hard Money lender Pine Financial, set up a CRM system with leads in for local properties found on the county site, reached out to a referral for a solid contractor that I am having lunch with this Thursday, spoke to a realtor focused on investment properties and ordered business cards.

Local meetups In your area but try to search MF and syndication specific as for example many groups here in Atlanta focus on flips.Attending a conference if you can as well makes a great way to put a face to face connection in place.Please let me know if I can help you in any way.Cheers , Shane

We often have to schedule conference calls with overseas factories at the end of our workday and of course they scheduled one last minute the day of the last meetup.

We've gotten a lot of people traveling for college visits and academic events (conferences, etc.).We have had really good experience with working with Airbnb so far.