It provides a free alternative number that can have its own voice mail message but will ring to your phone.

They cover all sorts of topics not specifically multi-family.As Tim mentioned FIBI is also popular. http://www.meetup.com/Orange-County-FIBI/This is multi-family but in Torrance http://www.meetup.com/REAL-ESTATE-INVESTING-WORKSHOP/I think starting a OC-Based multi-family investors Meetup is a great idea.

I'm seeing a lot of complaints lately to the point where mellisa data maybe the better alternative.

To deal with this crazy Bay Area market right now, I'm trying to cut my teeth on something new and less popular like adding on.

The closer you go to the coast, the higher the purchase price and the lower the R/V ratio.An alternate strategy is to look closer to where you live and find a distressed property that you could fix up and hold as a long term hold.

A written agreement helps to reduce the problem, but the problem will always remain.Seeking advice from an attorney in the area where the property is located can be a wise and very economical decision considering the alternative.

And contrary to popular belief that 100% is always the goal, this is not true. 100% occupancy is actually a bad thing because it means that our rates are too low, our marketing budget is being wasted because we have to send any leads to our competitors and, most importantly, it is a trigger for other investors to move in to your market.

There are reasonable and rational private-sector alternatives to 99.9% of what the govt does.

Another alternative is to create a contract to purchase with the wholesaler and double close.

It is a common general consideration among long-time experienced investors that once a way to make money becomes popular and trendy by those with less experience, then the investment opportunity has mostly peaked and passed.