Our local coffee shop started hosting the neighborhood association meetings and other events.

I can already tell that there is a great body of people on this site with similar values, which has already fueled me to accomplish a great deal of learning.My plan is to purchase multifamily homes in tertiary markets surrounding the NY/Philadelphia region, where I can maintain positive cash flow month by month while building equity.

I feel like it is a bit high and am definitely going to shop him, but any advice and counsel I can receive from dealing with General Contractors on how to save the most money/get the best deal would be great.

Read Krystal and Makenzie's posts about 4 times each...I was about to suggest using some HM and use that as the down pay and holding costs to do a smallish flip to double it in a few months, but if you are new and your long term goal is buy and hold, then I'd start shopping the market for median priced rental houses and use as little of that as possible for a down payment on something and keep as much in reserves as possible. 

Others have given solid advice to shop for another domain name.To be valued at 200k it needs to have web traffic similar or more than biggerpockets.com 1.5 million to 2.5 million visits a month.

It's more or less in line with your classification, but with a few good points about "wants": malls, shopping, entertainment being in proximity to class A.

Initially I thought my wife and I could buy out the other 9 siblings interest in the Trust, so I began shopping for buy out cash based off comparables and a appraisal.  

There is risk of two mortgages but with proper margins it's doable.The other way is to put the first house up for sale and shop for the second property.

You may want to know about community activities, shopping areas, schools and other things known to the locals. 

we basically are all over them if we hear about a noise complaint , and tell them if we get a call at 2:00am ( we never do ) we will be calling all their parents as well , so they can be awakened as well :) we make them sign an adendum that says they are a " family " they all eat , shop, share bills, .... together as a family . so far so good .