Worse, if you’re sued and a court buys the plaintiffs argument that you we’re offering financial advice without being licensed, you lose all statutory defenses and the likelihood of being held responsible for losses, legal fees, and extraordinary damages will be very high.

Playing defense late in a market and 1031 exchanging into a higher quality area.4.

Conferences, events, seminars, etc?

Has a REI conference in a few weeks in Denver, I will be there.http://thinkmultifamily.com/ - have not researched yetBrad Sumrok https://www.bradsumrok.com/ - people seem to be happy with this program, have not researched it yet, I see http://www.oldcapitalpodcast.com/podcasts/episode-... and https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/79/topics/149... now that I did a quick search.Also spoke with @Brian Burke's Praxis group.

Landlord conference.

But suddenly something in my head sparked and I been thinking about real estate for the past 3 months and went to defensive mode on money management and stayed conservative as much as possible.

My point is more that it should never even get to that point.The first line of defense should always be avoiding risk.

We continue to invest in properties all the time and keep a good track record both with owners and driving investments to their max... but our philosophy has defensively grown to what it currently is now...

There's more free real estate investing information available on this website than you'll find in dozens of books.I'd also recommend that you come and check out our upcoming conference in March -->BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Summit 2012.

At the moment I am fairly well educated (boot camp and conference attendee, faithful member of my state's REIA meetings, good researcher) but a little under-experienced, but I'm gaining ground!