I also have begun attending local REI club meetings.My area is small in population but in terms of percentages it rides the waves just like Phoenix and Vegas so i'm not sure yet whether it's a good or bad area to be investing in.

I separated the different stages/aspects of the deal below to be a "kind of" organized :) It's a 3bd/1ba, 1140 sq. ft Ranch style home.

Nick is the REIA organizer and Marina organizes the WHIP ones.

If you have 1000 investors and only need 5 to get the deal done then you’d probably ink the contract first and worry about organizing the capital afterwards.

Most of my time is spend on planning, organizing, coordination, training, lining things up for the crews, (we now have four, plus a bunch of good subs) securing funding, designing houses, staging houses, finding deals, meeting with crew leaders.My core team, I have one key private lender, a good accountant, a part time bookkeeper, a realtor, an attorney, four crew leaders and an assistant.I don't want to elaborate too long if your main need is how to automate your marketing ....

@David T I'm also in Helmetta, maybe we could organize a meetup with some local people.

This is a type of "service" that apparently is organizing some research for you, then charging you a fee to bid the public Broward county foreclosure "courthouse steps" online auction.

Best advice to raise private money is for you to network with reia groups and fraternal organizations.

He's there with them now and apparently they have some organization coming to help them load everything at 11:00 and will be cleared out by 3:00pm.

I would have no problem approaching an investor if we met an an REIA or by some other organic means, but I'm curious as to how someone would react under the above circumstances.