Thank Mitch for the invite. 

Let them invite you in or over.

I am just starting my educational process with regards to real estate investing and as I listen to numerous podcasts the topic of mentors is consistent. 

However, we saw numerous other houses in Toledo not worth a second glance due to neighborhood or high price relative to condition.   

Their muscles ached for weeks as they gained the strength needed to throw so many pots.At the end of class, both halves were invited to enter their most perfect pot into the competition.

We have the lots priced below bank-owned properties (numerous developer-owned lots that never sold and were foreclosed on).  

Postlets posts your ad to numerous websites for you (zillow, hotpads, etc.), and then when you take the ad down, you just do it once (from your Postlets account) and it removes all the ads on all the sites within 24 hours (usually within just a couple hours). 

@Brian Floyd On the other hand I was invited to Than's 2 hour presentation in Woburn, MA last week.

Definitely not a high end property, unless it's in a really expensive area.The perfect place to set up my home office and maybe invite a friend to live with me, and have room for LAN parties and maybe a server room ;)Yes, I would be just like the tenant-buyers I would deal with.Ah what a wonderful setting in which to truly begin working on creating a business, not just getting my first several deals done.

I'd talk to numerous RE agents, follow articles in the LA Times about this, go to RE meet ups in the area, search this forum, and try to make an assessment on that.