Most great brokers that will provide top level leadership and a stream of business wont take on part time agents.

Conferences are overpriced and are usually just to be ignored, you'll get 100x more from your local real-estate groups. 

If your location small then I would think about maybe travelling to a conference somewhere in a big city where you can make connections.

It is difficult to keep up, and I go to several conferences a year for this specific reason. 

I speak at Real Estate conferences and even taught a seminar at Loyola University last summer. 

I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on conferences and education and have developed strategies, put systems in place, and developed relationships that allowed me to have the year that I had in 2018.

Hey Bigger Pockets Community, I'm planning on going to the 10X Growth Conference in three weeks down in Miami and wanted to reach out and see who else would be there or in the area!

Found this conference and curious what Bigger Pockets folks think of it?!

The only thing the seller said she is willing to do is to get on the phone with the bank and authorize me (or just conference call the bank) to discuss loan condition to sell me the house. 

While the state budget is ugly (for now) we are just a few months away from a change in leadership at the gubernatorial level.