I too would love to find and participate in a REI club in Fresno.

In exchange for your participation and using your case study in the book, the publisher will send you a free copy when it is published.

The first requirement is that you spend more than 750 hours in real property trades or businesses in which you materially participate.

What constitutes active participation?

She wasn't with them long enough to participate but if she was I would have jumped right on it.

Your active participation like this is what makes this community so effective.

Yes, I continue to practice medicine and also participate in real estate both passively and actively. 

I'm curious if the aforementioned institutional capital players participating in the Metro Atl area is why. 

I learned a lot from both the book and participating in the process.Ultimately, I collected payments by having the tenants employer served and requiring them to deduct up to 25% of each pay period's wages.

Since we're in Texas, I can only participate in the weekly Sunday online calls, or use the Meetup discussion board to communicate with other members.