Lastly, My hat's off to Josh, Brandon and BP team for making such an amazing site.

Man sorry for the ouch but it certainly made you stronger so go do your thing now!

http://www.meetup.com/MyINREIA/ It is a great place to meet people and begin to build your team.

I'm ready with my team, so I hope to meet and work with some great people here at BP. 

That means becoming an expert  on an area, having a well seasoned team in place to act quickly ( realtor, lender, title and contractors) and having some balls to execute on the  right transaction.

I just saw this happen to a team of new investors with condos around the Penn Square area.  

Some negative effects include a stronger dollar further damaging already crippled emerging market economies, increasing the deficit due to higher interest on our massive debt, and damaging a fairly fragile housing recovery (we are still building far below what we did in 2007).  

Bill and Abby,I am on the Vos Team @ Atlas Real Estate Group and we specialize in assisting investors find the right income property.  

If not, just partner with a good real estate agent as a part of your REI team.

Once we sell should I venture out on my own or try to get my brother to invest his half on the next property together as a team?