For someone starting out in an industry as opaque as commercial re, honest advice (aligned by indirect equity interest) on deals you are working on, and general guidance from an experienced player is worth a lot!

I wholesale the vast majority of my deals and market direct to motivated sellers using direct mail, and online advertising, which enables me to find highly discounted properties.Funding: A private lender loaned me $57,000 in private money at 12% and 2 discount points secured by a 1st mortgage.

Which one usually has more action, more players, more that I could watch, listen and learn from?

Ask if they've approached any of the regular commercial players like CBRE, ARA Apartments, Starwood Trust?

Meet the players, introduce yourself, get to know them, ask for cards, take them out to lunch.  

I've always required the SSN to enable full access to the Credit Report - - no report, no rental. 

This also enables you to learn what the rents are as well as the amenities that your market is providing to tenants.

@Joel CummingsAn agent needs to bring real buyers, not game players and scammers.

He has recently passed, but he introduced me to many of the major players in town before I left Lex.

I would like to get to know players in this arena and start to build my team to expand into this area.I live out in Gold Canyon at the base of Superstitions with my wife and 2 kids.