After this years VRMA conference I was appalled by every vendor in the room saying how cheap they were and that they only charge x% of your rentals.

@Jay Hinrichs , @Brie Schmidt  (looking forward to hanging in Denver at the Best Ever Conference), @Kristopher Hanks , @Pancham Gupta , @Michael Le , @Carin Kveton  - thank you all for the kind words. 

The rep attends our annual conference and solicitations of their lending services to more than 800 Franchisee.

There is more long term development coming that will shift a lot of energy out to the eastern part of the metro area, IMO.Yes, small multis are hard to find.

Local meetups In your area but try to search MF and syndication specific as for example many groups here in Atlanta focus on flips.Attending a conference if you can as well makes a great way to put a face to face connection in place.Please let me know if I can help you in any way.Cheers , Shane

I have lived in Wilmington 5 years, Winston-Salem 3 years, Charlotte 2 years, and currently reside in Kinston, NC for the past 3 years.There is a lot of economic incentive to invest in eastern North Carolina.

I was deeded 80 acres in Eastern Oregon for services rendered and later sold for $29,000.

Probably the most productive day was when I took a personal day from my 9-5 and LLC'd a business, got a PO Box, created a website, had a conference calls with Hard Money lender Pine Financial, set up a CRM system with leads in for local properties found on the county site, reached out to a referral for a solid contractor that I am having lunch with this Thursday, spoke to a realtor focused on investment properties and ordered business cards.

I read of people finding houses for $45K and spending $5K on fix up and then flipping them for up to $65K in the eastern states.  

Now we need to have the national conference!