With money you can donate and impact change for generations to come or you could volunteer at the soup kitchen once a week and make a different in 20 peoples lives for one day.

What types of private lenders or organizations would be best to contact?

@Charles Nguyen is the organizer.

It's organized by @Stephanie Cabral .

If you are interested I'll pass along our PREIMA organizer's e-mail.Take careJeffPS As a side note, I see you are with Cerner...great company!!!

Any master planned development is a huge commitment for its developer.The only exception would be if the developer was a local 'billionaire' type developer operating a gigantic development organization. 

You do that, and you just volunteered your time and got nothing in return. 

And you don't HAVE to have them manage your property because they're usually happy to just help you close a purchase.Check Houston's local real estate organization and see if they list categories of agents, and whether there's a category for residential investment realtors.

There is one organization which has local support groups (there's one in Manhattan) including people like you who are already doing deals and who all have the same education.

This is just one of my many questions I feel having a REI mentor/group would remedy.I was wondering if there was a section of the forums for organized real estate meetups(The app on mobile is super buggy, and I can't seem to find anything).