Another caution, solicitation of "investors" can get you in trouble.If you look at or work through teh middle men, brokers, SDIRA managers or any other lending entity, you might as well be talking to HMLs, everyone in the chain wants a cut of the action.It's not hard finding local people and working with people that have little real estate knowledge is alot easier, even though they are savy investors or business people, than working with the professionals that want to see LTV, and qualifying statements.

Note: If you go to the same meeting each month, you can do detail tracking for a month, and can use the same detail to estimate expenses for the rest of the year. ( If nothing changed)2) Meals when traveling away from home - 50% is deductible unless the meal is provided to the general public (like Open houses) then it is 100% deductible.

Some folks are flashy with high end cars, trips, meals, watches, etc.   

There would be no charge for this (except travel, hotel, and meals) as I believe it is included in the cost of the course.

You are filling the value chain for people for many years.

You are rolling the dice otherwise.What I've usually found is a broken chain of title which will come back & bite you hard.

The only expense being the meal, little more informal and smaller.

I even heard hotel chains are now starting to try and do their own STR programs to compete!

Title Insurance should always be obtained whenever possible and feasible; which is almost always.Despite the above post about the difference between owner and lender, Title Insurance will often times cover more than JUST the chain of title.

You might call the We Buy Houses people from bandit signs and see if you can buy their deals, or to flip deals to them.I also learned that I like military tenants because I can go through chain of command for late rents, if needed.