They are for a for profit REIA so there is usually a speaker selling something at the main event but there is always so much more to the meetings.  

If you don't have a plan in place for how you're going to cover this in the event of prolonged vacancy or some disaster, you're setting yourself up for financial ruin.Your liability loan has a lower rates than your property loan.

But you are in San Fran and perhaps dealing with different tenants.Perhaps start with explaining WHY the damage occurred (their failure to clean), specify that they must clean in the future, and tell them they are responsible for the bill.

I do believe that networking is the way to go and I go to A LOT of networking events where I meet locals, discuss RE (and other stuff) , and get insights on local market conditions.

You need to calculate your "event horizon" meaning how many years you will hold the property.The 50% expense many use comes from over time when an asset is newly built or recently rehabbed with everything replaced that cost will be low.

As an investor event's like this make me stay away from investing within 5 miles.I have decided to open up my search range within an hour out of the city such as Yonkers, Northern NJ, and even a little further.Also as a primer on calculating ARV to compare two properties use this file http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/JasonScott/file/estimating-arv by @J Scott

now that's just worse case.. but something you need to know about.Subordination works for those that can step in in the event of default.. for passive investors its what I would consider a fairly risky play..

It's announced here on BP in the http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-events-and-happenings sub-forum as well as via our closed facebook group and a monthly email list (message me to be added).For example, here's the thread for last month's meetup http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/209734-detroit-michigan-monthly-meetup-july-2015 that has links to the facebook group and last month's event page.

This means they need the capacity, power and authority as record owner or fiduciary.I did a number of loans to heirs secured by the beneficial interest however I stopped in 1993 as it occurred to me that there were better ways to work these files than loans on fractional interests.

She can hire an attorney to fight or delay it, but eventually it will occur if no payment is made.