If local laws changed federal taxes localities would prevent residents from having to pay at all!

You may be able to join a local Real Estate Investors Association or similar for that.How many doors do you have to justify all this?

I'm in Orlando and a full time Realtor and serve on the board of CFRI, the local chapter of the National REIA.

@Tim Tafel try facebook groups local to you and meet them in real life and see how it vibeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/15740459798/

You guys are all over-thinking this, I think.Fannie Mae and the mortgage industry follows the same federal fair housing laws that everyone else does, and she wouldn't be doing business in any state where her guidelines break the local laws.

Contact the local community banks.

@Damein White Positing in the classifieds section of BiggerPockets, looking at the events & meetups page of BiggerPockets, and checking out Meetup.com can be great ways to find and network with local investors

Local investor/agent here!

I can't say if they'll beat that rate, but keeping it local has been good for me overall. 

In October and November, the two largest funding rounds went to local tech companies operating in the defense space.