Currently still researching from Brooklyn but I visited this Jan to speak with a few mortgage brokers and I'm excited to beginning my property search.

As an added benefit, we will only have to file a Reg D filing once with the SEC and can use the same PPM, with a separate one page addendum for each note offering. 

Check out MAREI.org and the Winvestors Facebook Page for starters.  

My name is Hector Marin and is my first experience in this web site, I'm looking to connect with awesome people who want to create win-win opportunities for business, and also with those who believe that a great way to success in business is by connecting and building effective teams. 

As far as your loan goes, contact your credit union, visit the bank where you keep your money, and ask friends and coworkers for their recommendations.  

Particularly a Sunday afternoon for me so I could make it down to Milwaukee for a visit with some friends on Friday night and Saturday night and stop to network on the way back north.

Make sure to network with local investors near you on this page: https://www.biggerpockets.com/meet .

Others want to get a one page summary of potential properties and still others like as much data as you will give them about every property that is in their ballpark.

It's not legally accepted until you get a signed contract, not just an acknowledgment on the web site.

Newbie military investors (which I still consider myself to be one) really need to understand what may go wrong in real estate because they are in the military such as PCSing (especially shortly after arriving to a new area) and having strategies to deal with it, deployment/surge deployments (also something that us Navy folk call an Individual augmentee or IA), landlording at a distance or landlording in general, and overseeing rehabbing without being able to visit the job site on a regular basis.