Maybe we can grab beer/food and talk REI. 

Don't go there and grab any old grout off the shelves.Find out who is doing the permits.

Your best ROI will be in Hammond and Merrillville because you can grab a solid property under $130K and get great rents. 

The 'Silicon Valley' tag is the Forbes author's twist, but I think is clearly a bit of hyperbole designed to grab reader attention, something more and more difficult to do, especially for a piece of this length.

Although we've both been known to grab the cleaning supplies and do a move out cleaning if we need to. 

I get it that you can grab some bargains from craigslist but surely your time and effort are worth some as well?

And if in the past, that might been overlooked, in an environment of raising interest rates I would think they would welcome a reason to call the loan, grab the money and redeploy it at a higher rate, especially if the bulk of the interest was already collected (since you pay mostly interest in the beginning portion of the loan lifetime, and less later).

I would be interested to meet up and grab coffee or lunch with a few of your investors. 

There are jobs that I wouldn't mind grabbing somebody standing around the Home Depot parking lot for.

@Indar Lange One of these days we will have to link up and grab coffee.