My goal for 2013 is to continue building my portfolio, both individually and along with my business partners, and ideally acquire our first multifamily property in 2013 or 2014.My day "job" is running an internet marketing company I founded with said business partners mentioned above.I look forward to meeting and engaging with you guys instead of just extracting knowledge selfishly.

I deal with short sales, and don't know loan modification terms that well.

Y si tienes problemas con arrendatarios, problemas serios, es ideal que te dejes aconsejar por alguien que conozca en detalle las leyes del país en que arriendas, ya que las cosas pueden ser muy distintas de un país a otro.

I'm thinking a place to eat/drink would be fine - but preferably not in a super loud area of a restaurant where we have to sit at separate tables would be ideal - so maybe a "back room" of some kind?

My ideal software would auto-download my banking transactions and be easy setup just like Quicken, keep track of them like Quickbooks, and have all the property management stuff of Buildium.  

So- I have targeted a few properties that would be ideal for my first flip.

Ideally you would form some entity, usually an LLC, and have it buy the property.

Then with some experience in small multifamily units (or several single family homes), one could ideally convince investors/lenders to finance a commercial deal on a small apartment building. 

Ideally, my plan is to find a job in carpentry full-time, while doing buy and holds, fix and flips, and perhaps some wholesaling to earn extra side cash flow, but don't think I want to jump into investing full-time at this point.

Ideally would like to invest in multi-families