It's a good supplement to BP, books, etc in that networking locally is an important aspect of meeting the local players, forging potential partnerships, learning about opportunities, etc.  

I'm not a player on 4 units as those are residential, but on commercial loans I'd like to think I'd be an asset.

For this the south is not dominant positioning, nor prospering.

Just like owning property out of state boils down the the PM those are your critical players.

I spent all last weekend planning on how I would dominate my craigslist market.

After building up enough profit from wholesale deals then that money can be used towards other investment strategies.This isn't a perfect analogy (mine never are :), but when someone says they want to start out wholesaling in order to raise capital to do other types of investing, that to me is no different than saying, "I want to become a professional baseball player so I can make enough money to buy box seats for my favorite baseball team."

Take your time and learn the game and the players.

One thing I have noticed, for what its worth, title companies seem to have become dominated by women employees.

How to Gage Economic ConditionsThese are ways to determine economic conditions:- Local Sales Tax Reports - paying close attention to the major factors affecting the major employers- Auto sales - dig down to learn of the sales price points- Walmart sales - especially type of goods dominating monthly sales for a period of several months, such as “essentials”.- Major Fast Food Sales - especially menu items: for example, are $1 menu items the dominating selling items- Pizza prices- Food Inflation - especially essentials- Transportation Inflation - such as gasoline prices and auto prices- What laws are in the pipeline to be passed - federal, state, and local- What are the viewpoints, sales, and employment habits of major local employers - historical information has a higher value than assumptionsWhat have I overlooked?

Still i think i need to get little hands on (with full time job) vetting many players in the process.