A few other members and I organize a free meetup that hosts an event at a different active investment deal somewhere in SD each month.I'd be more than happy to chat or help organize the event you suggested, so don't hesitate to reach out!

Hard costs are driven by a host of variables as does site cost. 

Hello All,I am hosting a free event on June 7th called "Emerging Real Estate Markets: for the savvy investor and first time buyers".

I invest out of state and host a local meetup which I think may be useful for you...Feel free to check it out:meetup.com/Los-Gatos-Real-Estate-Networking-Meetup/

Marco Santarelli (Norada) host a Podcast as well. 

On Thursday night, one of our Title Company's is hosting an event and you are welcome to meet me and my partner, Nick, there if you'd like.  

@Jerry Condra  Myself and a local hard money lender will be hosting our monthly meetup this evening at Joe Blue's @ 6pm.  

I currently attend our local REIA meetings, I also host a monthly meet up to play the cashflow board game by Robert Kiyosaki.

So in my mind High tech would have to relocate  Google facebook Intel Genentec and a host of others would have to decamp for values to crash.The other thing i see traveling all around the country like i do ( and I will be in Indy next 3 days FYI)... is you have a surplus of very old housing.. that simply does not exist in most west coast venues.. age is much newer.  

The population growth as well as employment growth allegedly is excellent for investment.