There's not much benefit with having a local CPA these days of technology.So you can browse this forum, find who you like and contact privately.

I'd like to keep my conversations going!

Get the conversation started with a low-ball offer and see how they respond.

A private family lives there, and traffic issues abound.  

Yet most conversations center around good deal vs bad deals, or around more experienced investor's guidelines.

It's what he does.The advantage I saw with my 3 commercial loans (on commercial property)  was I couldn't stand reporting my financials to them every year to such a high degree that I paid them off or refinanced them with fixed rate private money from a hands-off acquaintance. 

Vail is unique, the people that fly their private jets in still came and still dropped $10k/week for a ski vacation. 

But with a small one person deal you're probably going to pay the price of their learning curve.Biggest difference between Bigger Pockets and Yelp I suppose would be that you can look at reviews on profiles and actually reach out to those folks through BP private messaging so you can verify they're not a robot.

It will be tough to find a HML who can fund the deal fast enough for an auction property.Auctions typically require full payment, in cash, within 24 hours of the end of the auction.You would need to get pre-approved with a HML and have the funds already available.Otherwise you could find a private money lender or partner to take on the deal as well.

Hi Joshua,I'm in the solar industry and I think it would make a difference whether the loan is help privately or part of a public program such as PACE.