Even by just telling people what your interest are in real estate you will be amazed by how many people you'll meet who invest in real estate because you can never tell and in a city like NY you gotta be connected so even look on BP to see if you can find any local investors and talk about what you look forward to doing because you can possibly make partnerships through those conversations just by discussing your interests.

I guess you could talk to the vendor if the property is not close, but depending on how much work the PM is sending them, this may be a dead end.

Only problem is that I'm not sure how to find or talk to a decision maker about buying it. 

Love to talk to people with similar backgrounds, but also welcome discussions with people are into design!

Again, just understanding your market and the tenants serving. talk soon

So how about offering some actual logical argument instead of just repeating the same content-free talking point?

You can look into other ways to accept online payments and talk to the tenants about using a different service that is more efficient.Talk to the tenant and calmly and professionally tell them the expectations: That the rent will be in your hands by whatever date, regardless of their delivery method.

Need to talk.

I'd be happy to talk to you about where you're starting and what you're good at/what you like to do to see if a path suggests itself.

After talking to the organizers and the topic of military member lack of RE education, I was wondering if there were any interest from the forums to have a meetup group down here.