Ive  never been good at pitching people for money.

This can be confusing to people who will inevitably say, "Why did my taxes jump by thousands of dollars!?"  

My name is Hogan Chouinard and I am new to real estate investing, I have been wanting to get involved with real estate for a while because I want to give myself financial freedom in the future by putting in the extra work right now, I want to start a real estate portfolio that I can continue to build on over time for years to come, and I am hoping that I can meet some people on bigger pockets that can help me along the way!

With that, I want to educate and help people find the importance of sizeable assets!

There are basically 3 types, overnights (catering to RV's traveling along interstates), destination (resort style parks that people vacation at) or long term.

I'm curious how people here built their team?

If you demolished inside and they see it you cannot get a standard HELOC you will need to go hard money as most lenders are going to tell you that any worker who stepped on the site can lien the property and HELOC's do not use a new full title report, they rely on the title report of the last sale (again like I started with if people DIY record after closing it's a problem). 

Lakewood is a very sought after rental area with high rental rates, and a lot of people will pay high rents to live in close proximity to Lakewood, and downtown Cleveland, which this area is right in the middle of those two, as well as right by lake erie.  

So, we're trying to find other ways to connect with people who are active in the city. 

I even had two people claim to be licensed in certain areas that in fact they were not and could not even pull a permit... not to mention they were not even properly credentialed for major things like electrical and plumbing.