The promoters interact directly with the investors and the portal generally partners with a broker-dealer in some fashion.

I would love to chat with you more Jon.

Consequently gave away too much control and am still feeling the sting of that one.Also, early on I didn't interact much with other investors and operated on my own and kept a low profile.

I am seeking someone familiar with this market to chat with mentor if u will, or possibly work a deal together.

Somehow I'd never considered the interaction of tenants in the building and the specific issues that might create in such a location.

Thanks for letting me know about meetups in the area, I would love to chat with other Bay Area investors.I definitely think East Palo has started to gentrify (Starbucks, Home Depot, Four Seasons all contribute $), but schools still have a long way to go.I bought in East Palo Alto in 5/2009; a fixer in East Palo Alto in 2010 and sold that; a fixer in Redondo Beach in 2/2011 and a fixer in Mountain View in 1/2012 but nothing since.

I've spent most of my life in Tacoma and I know the area extremely well, I'd be happy to chat about the city sometime just send me a message. best of luck!

From experience building traffic can add hours to your work and thus kill your pay per hour.Additionally, a lot of the pay for traffic options out there are beginning to be discounted by Google and the other search engines because they are realizing that most of the interactions being recorded are not legitimate.Finally, there are a lot of professional internet marketers out there doing the same thing so the market is flooded with hundreds if not thousands of people cramming the same niche markets.

Not mentioned in first post, but getting the scoop on tenant came over the course of multiple interactions - that were strangely repetitive and rambling at times... and he has since called back and left messages wanting to talk about it some more - that the rent was often late over the last year- why the glowing rec then??

Was looking forward to chatting with you again.