Big players are certainly getting ready to pounce. 

Mark's lunches (and coaching), the Hard Money Bankers meetup, and the Anne Arundel County meetup all have some big players in attendance and some great content.

Find the buyers, drive around town looking for active rehab projects, ask the contractor who the builder or the investor is, go to the building department in your county, find the guys there looking for permits, go to the closest investment club meeting, the point is to locate a handful of serious players in your town and find out what they consider a deal.

Grant is a small player when it comes to syndication.

I also know the courses contribute to the expense of running the REIA - or the dues would increase quite a bit.That said, real estate can be difficult to break into- especially if you don't know the real "players" .

For the last year or so we've seen some key deals made downtown by Prudential and other big players.

The seller is not disclosing a reason(we have asked) they are a big player locally and purchased the property in 2003 for 300k.

I had a similar experience went to a 3 day event of a pretty pricey mastermind group.. lots of top players in our industry are members .. price was 25k a year and for some of the folks there that I knew personally and a few I funded their first deals the networking for them was very valuable.. for me other than figuring out the new marketing methods people use  there was nothing really new that has not been done before 100's of times .

@Jay Helms IBM is no longer the big player.

Hey Luke — We’re based in Charlotte and work with a lot of the flip and construction players out here.