I have certain skills useful to the community and so I volunteer (currently or recently):church running video 4x / monthchaperone school field trips 3x / yearmentor after-school engineering competition 2x / weekcurriculum advisory committee for school district, parent repcontinuing ed committee for school district, parent repyouth soccer club president ("club" = $1M/yr budget)athletic association directorMore specific to your point, I'm an engineer.  

Spend 30 minutes a day on Bigger Pockets by connecting with “colleagues,” perusing blogs and videos, and engaging with others on the forums:http://www.biggerpockets.com/meet7.

I will get involved with the videos and Podcasts. 

Hello all,I'm new to this site, but so wonderful to find so much great information here.I am one year away from my goal of leaving the corporate world behind to open a fast casual restaurant concept.

For anyone in the Southern California (San Diego, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Del Mar, etc), my good friend and I are starting an aerial / drone video marketing company for restaurants and real estate.

I have been listening to podcast and videos.

Almost all serious buyers will view the property in person or at the minimum a video walk through from their agent and will see the street.

I've gone through some of the intro videos here on BP to get an understanding of the principles of real estate investing.

I would write down principal, I'd ask if that included taxes, "does that include insurance", do you have an HOA, is there a second loan on the house, a HELOC or any unpaid child support liens, and then I would say, very casually "about how much will it take to bring the house current?

Garrett even emailed Sylvia (cc’ed me) a video that the work is completed and since I trusted Garrett, I thought and assumed the issue was then solved.