The city has just begun a new ' abandoned home ' law that allows for much quicker resolution of vacant property. 

The general is as follows:-have a builder that owns a property with a partner on a British Overseas Territory-vacation destination with soon-to-increase traffic via increase in major cruise line stops-they have additional property to offer (at least a portion of) as collateral-plan to build 13 condominium units to sell (already permitted); builder claims to be able to construct in 5 months-looking for an individual or organization interesting in financing the project as a Joint VentureNeed an appropriate staging ground (perhaps within this site?)

Generally speaking, a buyer's preapproval should show the amount for which they are approved on the purchase, as well as the type of loan for which they are applying.On the listing side, I like to see a preapproval included with an incoming offer, whether or not the amount is included; I'd like to know that that buyer has at least begun to explore financing and knows what their budget is.On the buyer's side, I will redact the dollar amount from the preapproval when submitting an offer, for the same reason you stated above.

I've found a few online but have only begun to nibble at the info as I wanted to hear from the BP community first.    

I visit Cleveland 4 times a year,, sometimes more.We have software in place to keep everyone organized.

It's unavoidable, as these groups rely on gurus, and marketers for money to keep the organization alive.

That said, we have begun mirroring bed & breakfast models for financial record keeping, and I think that will help us refinance in about six months... time will tell how that goes.Also, JD mentioned "set it and forget it"...

We're not officially a BP group - I'm not sure if BP has official meetups - but the organizers met through BP and many of our expert speakers are BP members.Feel free to reach out anytime.

Already I've began making Excel spreadsheets and getting organized with information I'm pulling and and building a list of questions.  

Admin for the group I mentioned above is amazing and does a great job keeping the site organized and checking/deleting the idiots.