I'm actually a financial anaylst for a defense contractor and I realized its time to make a change.

It's now time to do something, the clock is ticking, I want to retire from my 9-5 and have to pay from my kids college.My goal is to have at least $100k/year free cash flow in 10 years or less, from real estate investment activities, primarily focused on buy and hold/landlord activities.I've attended some conferences, read a few books and several of your helpful forum posts.

your HML is your last line of defense from making a bone head purchase because you don't really know what your doing .this Is why a LOCAL HML is and can be invaluable they will keep you out of trouble by rejecting your CMA values especially from RE brokers that just want to sell you the propertyIf that all make sense

That should make for an interesting conference... 

I stumbled across this conference in our local city.  

A few years ago while living in Los Angeles, I attended something called the National Grants Conference.

Be prepared for a further action required result and soil drilling/sampling.I have been involved with several contaminated properties over the years and the primary reason you want to get a thorough environmental review is to provide an "innocent landowner" defense.

I'm going to a Beverly Hills conference in march. 

I was also an ex-Navy working in nuke reactor/engineering department aboard two flat tops carrier, did stints in the private sector as defense contractor, engineer, consultant.

It was in person at a conference last year...