I have attended a few local meet ups here in Denver and plan on continuing to frequent those but am curious to any other recommendations that anyone has as methodology to build a network.

The agency follows the methodology of Brian Buffini referral system and he's amazing.

May someone please explain to me the methodology of, I suppose, how to protect ones-self when placing a down payment on a property and the property value happens to drop 20% for an example.

The negative talk about wholesaling methodology and such.

The Bureau publishes average prime offer rates for a broad range of types of transactions in a table updated at least weekly as well as the methodology the Bureau uses to derive these rates.

But I'm sure that there are other methodologies to underwriting that I may be missing.  

Using this methodology, you simply take the Net Operating Income (NOI) and divide it by the average capitalization rates "cap rates" that most properties in your market are trading for.HOWEVER, the cap rate approach typically goes out the window for deals under 4 units, which are still considered as "residential" by most lenders.Sounds like you have a "hybrid" deal. 

How long did anyone think blasting out yellow letters through snail mail is going to be the optimal lead generation methodology?  

More importantly, what is your methodology for analyzing a property?

Granted, this is all an imperfect methodology.