They also have connections to vendors that a new flipper may not have, with deep discounts from multiple use.

I have been to many of the events as an invited guest or vendor on the finance side when a student wants to buy a rental etc.. they are actually pretty fun things to go to.. and like with all big guru events i think one out of ten will go off and do something with what they learn.. maybe less.. but thats the same with all real estate be it sales or those that pop on BP  there are 500k people on BP i seriously doubt 500k of them are active in real estate

Minimum of 22.5 hours of continuing education over 24 months (sometimes vendors will chip in).

With all the horse shows and conventions at the Fair Ground, the vendors are always looking for a place to stay for an extended period. 

Only you can answer #1...and #2 is not an obvious "yes".Most professional apartment management companies will not want a fractured property without on-site management...and many 3rd party SFR management companies are not set up to properly manage larger multifamily with the vendors that usually support the apartment community.I went with 3rd party management but it took me three management companies until I found a decent one (and they still have challenges over dedicated self-management).

As one of the top 25 reviewers on homedepot.com, I write reviews for Home Depot as a member of the Home Depot Seeds Program, where HD vendors give me stuff and I keep it.

Maybe the vendor is motivated.

The Home Union experience was not very pleasant and they wasted a lot of my time as a vendor.  

hi alli like a bit of banter and thats what boards are for and in aussie we are all for a bit of disagreement thats waht makes us a bit different we can get in and don't mind the odd fightbut with real estate I find that you have three typesone you like and they will submit your offer ( and 80% is way up on my dial I am at 30 to 50% so you are a bit high for me)the next is the one that work for the vendor ths one you have to sit and have coffee and negotiate a deal( this one I like as this is horse trading at is best)and then theres the forget it they will offer nothingso what do you dosimple set the first one after the dealsit down with the second over a coffee.and tell both what you want and set them both to go and get ityou don't have dog and chew the bone yourselfyou want a deal send people to go and get it its thats simpleand if the number one and the number two you don't think can do the deal and my number ones and two canthe find a new number one and twoI send people after deals in the same office never mind the same state and anyone that tells me that the buyer is not in command in any market is sorry you are buying in the wrong market.a person that want to buy a car, a boat, a ship, or a house is a buyerand if you are a seller you want that personprice is a very different thing as price is an amount that a buyer and a seller is willing to acceptand for me thats not just money thats a value or a commodity but thats a very different question or postis your offer low or not acceptable simple answeris the vendor going to accept itif yes no its not to lowif no yes it was to lowits thats simple and a real estate is just a conduit to a dealand if a real estaate has problem with that well they are the same as waiter has a problem with a bad client thats come with the job.one thing I tell my real estates and a few need to understand from what I have already read is that investors don't buy one property they buy a fewso if you like investors you make more commissionsif you don't you miss out on commissionsand what pays your wages or your income commissions my real estaet and I think the ones there will want to not only open doors and give key but open at 12pm if we need to or we will find some one that will.oh and here my real estate have picked up at 6am and work till 12 pm to do our deals and I expect that from themso 80% is that unrealsticis 50% and up til 12pm to do the deal unrealisticnot sureand yes if the real estate does not find the deal I want I find a real estate that willreal estate need to get an income but they also have to work to get that income and the best way for them to do that is with business and investorsbut that just my .002 and Im here in sydney so just looking at your neck of the woods

Hopefully you found some of the vendors as potential future service providers for you.Don Beck is doing a full day training event in mid-September; you might find that worth attending.