I was originally thinking it could benefit us to have just my name in the event something bad happened to my credit, at least one of us would still have good credit.

Note that if you are going to go the PPC route, you better use the google planner tool beforehand to identify the best keywords to back. 

Crazy thing is the neighborhood held a charity event to help him fix the house around the same time it happened, Raised $19,000 for him.

I'm from Dallas myself and no I don't plan to attend those events.

Bothell is smart, they saw that Mill Creek worked and took the City Planner and said do this again, but bigger.

@John O'Keeffe good to hear you work in the city, that means no excuses for missing next event!

The most well-intended and capable end-buyer does not want to be out several grand in the event the house burns down before she or he can close on it themselves or there is some huge title cloud.Whatever you want to make on the deal is your spread between what you get the seller to agree to and what you get the end buyer to accept.   

Keep your credit cards in your wallet and leave that at home when you to go to events.

You can check out the forum "Events & Happenings" too, that's where most of that gets posted.

@Lisa Thoele  Its a fine line in the ultra competitive   west coast markets.When I speak at RIAs and other events in LA.. the first thing I ask is a show of hands from the audience who is a RE agent.. virtually every hand is raised.. then I ask Who is a Private lender and again nearly all the audience raises their hands.Its not quite that way here in Oregon.. but its still a very vibrant RE market..