If they are receptive give them a card and, more importantly, get their info so you can follow up.

We plan on offering up a "basket" that would give them gift cards and ideas on things to do around the area though.

If you play cards right you could use this as a revolving credit to buy houses to rehab or put into a rental property.

So far I have to give two pints of blood, sign over my first born, and show my kindergarten report card.

It all came out of my personal bank account/credit cards.

IMO the entire thing is a house of cards built on government lies and piss poor government intervention, without those we'd already be screwed.

@Daniel Hyman, if the town doesn't change your property card to reflect the additional bedroom and bathroom, it's unlikely you'll get "credit."

I've looked at them since for appliance sets for my rentals but always found much cheaper locally - Appliance Direct scratch and dents (negotiated down) and Lowe's using discount gift cards and coupons with sales.

and are a hyper inclusive area (relative to the rest of the US), why would we hand out formal cool club REIA membership cards & define who is/isn't cool enough to gain membership?

We got a duplex essentially 0 down, we offered $5k down owner financing, bought over market value (full asking price), cash advanced a credit card to pay for the down and closing costs, cash flowed every month and eventually raised the rents (to increase the value of the property) and sold it, making around $70k after cashflow and profit selling in a few years - essentially we created money out of thin air.