You'll get to meet a few of the local wholesalers, some hard money lenders, and talk to many folks actively flipping in the area.  

For instance, spend $10k on a kitchen remodel, increase your value by $8.5k (or whatever, but it's always less than the expense).I figure I must be missing something, because BiggerPockets is full of investors talking about their contractors, etc.

You talk about waiting until the $500k home goes up to 800K, that’s a 60% increase.

I'd be happy to get in contact to talk about the market as well as refer over some of my contractors, realtors, etc, in the Richmond area.

In fact, it can be very disempowering to be the only female in a group with all these men talking over you and excluding you from the conversation (and this happens a lot to many of us.)I'm certain that we all hope to break into the majors like Jackie and take advantage of every opportunity at our disposal, but that doesn't mean that learning from other women who have already had success wouldn't be extremely valuable for many of us.

Talk to a local lender to see if you could get financing for it as part of the business3.

And when I say time I’m not talking hours or days, I’m talking weeks. 

I am looking to talk to some people and network to learn more about investing here!

Yea I've inquired and talked to many other similar companies within the past week offering "Business Lines of Credit" based strickly on your personal credit score.

If anyone is willing/able to talk over a Zoom call for a more personable conversation, I'd love that; otherwise, my main questions are below, and you can feel free to simply answer them here.