Im talking about a solid presence in the streets, in your circles of influence, in your social medias, in real estate blogs, etc?

Especially for people like me who have several businesses, and who use different types of tax shelters to that can have hard-to-predict tax implications (at least early on in the year).For those reasons, I like to ignore tax implications in all my analysis, and assume worst case -- that I'll lose about half of my income to taxes. 

I've put in 12 - 18 hour days, 6 days a week, working on building this vision - from concept to logistics, marketing strategies, market identification, building a network of vendors, chatting with investors, building business development strategies that have passed proof of concept, creating hiring strategies and an online HR management system, building a social media presence, creating marketing agency-grade marketing collateral, establishing branding, website building, building relationships with hard money lenders, you name it, I've worked on it and achieved success there.

A third option is to get him into conversations with other investors who are really making money, This is hard if you dont have success in your immediate social circle. 

Seattle population growth can only go north or south, and the Everett market to the north is more socially upscale than to the south.

Assuming I find a few good deals I plan to wholesale and possibly keep a couple for rentals.While I wait for the letters to print and send I plan to get involved in my local REI/Meet up groups, drive for dollars, and do everything that I can to promote myself over social media.  

When I started 19 years ago... there wasn't Facebook, social marketing, Twitter, Instagram, or any scanning fax machines.  

There was no deposit or starting cost asked by Citizens other than my social. 

He was grumpy and anti-social.  

There are also tax implications some of which are beneficial.