Great place to start is the blog, podcasts and webinars.A more hands on approach for networking is your local REIA.I cannot speak on behalf of any other organization other than Southern CT REIA.

That is a great approach, however you may need a good Realtor and mortgage broker on your side.  

This approach weeds out the tenants you don't want and reduces the number of bogus showings (e.g. people just tire kicking).  

@Rose Davis your best bet is to approach an investor who you can bring value too.

That approach works well for us.

As a bird dog, you wouldn't necessarily approach the seller - that's your buyer's job.As a wholesaler, you can only make claims that you know your buyer can fulfill.

We are approaching 10 mortgages, so we are looking for other ways to leverage.

Both approaches will require going through all the title paper work on each of my properties.However, one bank in north texas is open to a discussion of opening a line of credit on the properties as collateral whereby they would have a lien on my properties (which I currently hold free and clear).

Again, that is a simple statement of fact.For RE investors, I feel that the dispassionate approach that my fellow Marines (and other veterans, to a lesser extent of course) naturally bring to the table is huge.

@Federico GutierrezI have not yet i'm working on getting a consistent amount of deals first before i take on that expense and since my main focus is investors i will probably have a little bit of a modified approach to what my assistant would be doing. how about you?