Hey Adam Settelmyer First, congrats on your commitment and dedication to preparing yourself for RE investing!

No one . . .While the average stock investor can't evaluate a business either, there is an industry dedicated to evaluating the quality of investments that is completely independent.I worry how this plays out over the long term.

I now have the time to give REI the dedication it needs.

You have Corporate (local companies that fly in execs from other locations or countries for short term projects etc), Vacation (there are whole websites dedicated to vacation rentals and all of them are short term and usually at a higher daily or weekly rate than if you rented by the year), Insurance claims (a family needs a place to stay while their home is being repaired due to storm damage or some other disaster).

12:00pm Sign In, Order Food ($ on You), and Socialize12:20pm Begin Meeting, 00:20s Introductions, Show & Learn12:40pm Open Platform Q&A12:55pm Wrap UpFEEL FREE TO STAY LATER!

If the process bodes well for us financially, we are hoping to use it as a platform for development.

At least one site puts their own money into many deals.When you mention disclosure burden, I hear it's more of a consideration/concern for the developer who want to participate on platforms, than for the investors.

Lastly, the book is dedicated to his wife.Based on that information, I would say he did by doing and as he got more successful, he studied others, but mostly, just saw an opportunity and figured it out as he went along.

I've read about how essential REIAs can be to an investor, but I've also read about how they are often nothing more than platforms for gurus.Can anybody from the metro area provide suggestions for local REIAs that focus on investing in Virginia and are geared toward educating the members, not selling them?

I hear enough about backpage that I assume it gets decent traffic.You can have the best platform in the world but if no one goes to it then it is pretty useless!