.*  If you invest in areas of the country with no industry growth, low education, and endless land to build, you propbably wont get any appreciation.* of course this is barring a major trump administration f-up.  

Hello all,I am part of a consortium of investors in WA state seeking to invest/purchase notes in the following areas:2nd lien notes:  nationwide1st lien notes:  WA state onlyWe have recently purchased a WA 1st lien note from Kondaur Capital but these guys don't have that many WA 1st notes to sell and their reputation within the notes industry isn't unblemished, to say the least.  

don't know if there is a code of conduct for those folks or not.. probably not the first industry that wanted to get help from postal carriers.. they have jobs for life though so I don't think if its frowned upon they would risk their jobs for small dollars.

If commercial, are you looking at apartments, retail, industrial, storage, etc.?

I think it's somewhat of an industry standard.

@Barry Allen I take it that you are interested in Real Estate Investment, so I would suggest you find something in that industry.

I have been in the construction and real estate industry for the past 15+ years.

It helps protect yourself for sure from the poorly trained legal people or from people that claim to be in the industry, BS and scam artists.

REI is a specific and complicated subset of business finance, accounting, and tax preparation - and taking advantage of the tax law to pay only the taxes that are legally due, requires tax code knowledge that is specific to this industry and your specific tax classification within it.I am very glad that you are asking about using an attorney - as there usually is a huge temptation to do it all yourself and the internet makes it look soooo easy.  

We've seen some good improvements in the visitor industry so far (the last 40 days, when tourism opened back up).