I did some wholesaling when I was living in Milwaukee a few years back and now I am determined to get up and running once again here in Chicago.I am always looking to network with other investors and am always more than willing to take any advice and help that is given to me.

Staci,Welcome....I am currently in your neck of the woods for two (long) weeks at Disney.Have your started networking at any of your local REIA meetings yet?

As big as you can make it with good solid buyers, just keep working the list and networking to the best of your ability.As for a percentage of ARV this is going to depend on your market conditions and the type of buyers you have.

.- immediately place contact info from networking into my database. - Go to county courthouse- learn what info is available from clerks.- setup DBA- network- Locate good webdesigner to set up business website.- Design & printout business cards using local business.- Use local business to manufacture fifty bandit signs

Hi Brent,Welcome to the site, check back often, join the discussions, network and make contacts.talk to you soon.

12A It’s all about networking!!!

Chris, Also, network at all of your local REIA meetings and let all of the investors know about your deal (most REIA's have deal time, where you can present your deal to the entire room.)

Networking in person at these REIA's is one of the best ways to quickly learn this business.

A few suggestions which I think would enhance biggerpockets (some taken from vBulletin), in no particular order:* multi-quote - the ability to select multiple posts for quoting* kudos - ability to register approval of a post, or agreement with a point, and then count these and somehow rate posters - just provides more incentive to share and try to be constructive and helpful * ability to view the forum in wide screen format (maybe you can but I can't see how - the forum text only takes up about 30% of the width of my screen)* more/better emoticons - happy to suggest some if you like ;)* also I'd like emoticons inserted where the cursor is, rather than always at the end of the text (ie if you edit and want to insert an emoticon in an earlier para, you seem to be only able to do it by cutting and pasting the emoticon, which is always inserted at the very end of the whole post)* I imagine this is related to the fact that whenever you format some text, your cursor is moved to the very end of the post; I'd rather the cursor be left where it was just prior to applying formatting (eg bold)* ability to report/hide abusive posts, to try and stop conversations degenerating into slanging matches :roll: Love the forum - thanks, Josh.

Starting to take classes and networking with some broker friends of mine.