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17 February 2012 | 8 replies
Keep your credit card in your pocket but talk with the various attendees, ask for business cards, and talk with other investors in your market.
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5 August 2017 | 12 replies
When people ask me questions I do my best to answer them completely.I am interested in attending the March 12th meeting and will give you a call shortly Michael.It's funny you mentioned, I was actually planning on attending some of the other meetings before starting mine again.When I was doing this last year, I did get a really good turn out for the meetings but the timing just wasn't good for me and since then the attendees having been asking me to start it again.
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16 December 2012 | 56 replies
Hopefully we get more attendees when Nick sets up the next one.
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4 April 2016 | 23 replies
I also read his book (which, by this point, only reiterated what we already knew from carefully leveraging his blog) ($10)on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J35GWFA7. we went to the Note Investor's Summit and didn't get lost :) (Gordon wasn't present, but was positively mentioned often by speakers and attendees alike.)8.
6 February 2020 | 7 replies
Just returned and there were over 600 attendees and exhibitors this year.
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23 July 2007 | 2 replies
It is put together very professionally and I have found the quality of presenters and attendees to be excellent.
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15 November 2016 | 3 replies
It is free for first time attendees, and memberships are very affordable and a great value.
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27 November 2017 | 7 replies
We skipped the sales pitch and moved on after hearing from another attendee that they had tried to have her open credit cards to finance the investment.
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5 December 2017 | 55 replies
University and college housing is a good investment to start with, verify that the students pass background checks and have a guarantor for each one, some institutions also require first-year attendees to dorm at the university (Harvard, MIT, etc.)
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29 December 2012 | 13 replies
My question is targeted towards attendees, not sponsors or exhibitors.