J Scott, I agree it becomes more comical when they go back to restate, often there is little or no publicity about the restatements.

Washington state is has banned smoking in public places.

This being a public forum and with several of my direct competition being on here (several of them I helped get started), I don't like giving up the goods on my specific marketing campaigns.See with wholesaling, once you've established a good buyers list, the only real key to it is finding deals.

I'm grateful that more of the American public is becoming involved and having an impact.

Fine for an FBI guy, not fine for dealing with the general public.

Things take much longer to develop than people think.Typically when you see big apartment buildings go up it is a 3 to 5 year process.It might only be a few years from the time the public hears about it but before that years of legwork went into getting to that point.I couldn't say if right now was the right time to build.Everything is project specific.If the city will let you use a class C finish rather than a class A the numbers will save you money.Just to give a for instance some cities will demand a traffic light be put in for some projects.The traffic light parts itself are not that expensive but with the fiber optic hookup and underground cabling you are talking hundreds of thousands just for that one item.Typically on larger projects it's a fight for the developer to make profit.They propose a certain density and drawing.The county or city then wants to reduce the density and add in all these road improvements and lights at the cost of the developer.All the costs have to work for both parties to get a deal done.I have seen some projects take 2 years to get approved from submitting after going back and forth with revisions and tabling until the next meeting.So half the battle is the cost and financing available when you break ground and the other is the political junk.How much total land would you be getting??

A new colleague of mine here on BP has asked me some questions via PM and I thought it was best to present his questions and my answers in the public forum for all to benefit from.

I looked over the upcoming training schedule and some of the classes offered (almost all are two hours) include: Your Castle Career Launch, New 2011 Contracts, New Agent Orientation and Power Tools, Denver Metro RE Trends,Ninja Weekly Agent Coaching Boot Camp, Career Mastery Instruction, Advanced e-Contracts, How to Buy a 40K Condo That Cash Flows, How to Capture Investor Business and Advanced 1031 Topics, Public Trustee Class, The Contractor/Realtor Relationship, Networking With Confidence, Buyer Mastery Class, and Avoiding Inspection Pitfalls.

However, I would like to publicly suggest integrating Tapatalk to the forums, which would make it INCREDIBLY easy for everybody in the community to connect on the go (who happen to have Android and/or iOS).

Take time to learn the ropes before you jump into it....if your county has public records online where you can access certain types of records, and if you can check those against your property appraiser website, then it makes things a lot easier.