Does anyone in the area know if there is a pattern?

HI Tony, A few options might include:Private lending;partnerships, including with your team, manager, REI club members, people with more capital than time;hard money;self-directing IRA money;owner financing;wholesaling...There are a lot of resources, books and podcasts on this topic - I'm sure as you dig deeper you'll identify the option that makes the most sense for you. 

It may be easier to post the bid minus any company branding so we can identify possible issues.

This is one of the reasons for this thread, to hash out the things that I should avoid and identify the things that i should dig into and get more information on.  

Everyone knows how important location is in the success of our real estate investments, but I don't hear much discussion on how to go about identifying areas of opportunity.

We were simply pointing out what we see as a pattern with people backing educational courses with their first post or two.  

Anyway, I need to identify a few local resources for projects that I want to address.

There are quite a few active members in the Houston area; let us know if there's ever anything specific we can do to help you along your investing journey.Finding Bigger Pockets is a great first step; your next step should be identifying your goals and outlining them as specifically as possible.

And have some stipulation that those actually in the unit at any given time are to be specifically identified, with updates as this changes.

I'd like to come out to each city for a day and meet with established PM's and RE Agents to help me identify which areas of these cities are best for out of state investors, etc..