Anybody who wants to know the real ROI and occupancy figures can check on Airdna.

🙌 I love your focus on helping others achieve financial freedom through real estate – that's what it's all about!

As far as meetups go, you can find a lot of local events posted here on BiggerPockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-real-estate-events-...I also have a list of Chicago meetups that I can share with you as well.

I don't think real estate is great there, however, as an investment vehicle. 

Even still, it could be said that I've still lost money due to my time on the tools instead of prospecting as a real estate agent (the cost of lost opportunity).If you can truly do 80%-90% of the work yourself (at acceptable quality levels) and you aren't sacrificing your time where you can get better returns for your efforts, then yes, it can work even up here in Canada.

@Christopher MorrisYou hit the nail on the head.The “retire on real estate cash flow” gurus sell the dream of quick retirement from cash flow.Buy two houses a year that each cash flow $1000 a month and retire in 5 years, they preach.Or invest passively in real estate syndications and financial freedom will soon be yours, they promise.What they don’t tell you is:In order to owner enough real estate to generate say $10,000 a month income let’s say, you need at least $2M of capital invested in YES cash flowing real estate.Let’s say one could buy rental real estate that provides a 6% annual cash on cash return.

We had a record breaking online attendance this week, hope to do the same next month:  Top 10 Title Issues Real Estate Investors have to solve with Accurate Title

Mom is a real estate agent and dad knows the trades.

I am looking to purchase real estate for both investment purpose as well as to offset as much tax liability as possible. 

Real Estate is a large asset class that has many different strategies inside of it.