I think that’s great how you are networking with your clients that you have sold homes to and turning them into investors with you.Anyone else out there that has been able to maintain a job that you like and build a real estate empire that wouldn’t mind sharing how you did it.

I have been part of large real estate syndications, most recently in the mobile home sector, and am now looking to expand to out of state multifamily.

Where I work and at most larger banks for the first 6 months it's all about purchase price and after 6 months you can refi based on the appraised value.If you have the track record and your ARV's are right I would either go in person or call local banks or credit unions.

Other than your personal network and a forum like Bigger Pockets, what are the best places to read (or hear), not so much real estate HOW-TO, but real estate NEWS?

It is a great site for networking and learning from other investors. 

Network and learn as much as you can from others, educate yourself, select a market, pick the niche where you want to play, and go for it.

BP doesn’t like discussion of meetups outside of the networking topic thread.  

I have a 5 unit multi-fam in a suburb of Syracuse and am ready to branch out and pursue larger multi-fam and mobile home parks. 

So I met with a local investor today! It went great!! The guy was extremely smart, and I received several great tips. If anyone is in the Milwaukee area or Wisconsin in general I would love to talk about REI. Exciting...

Hey BP gang, I'm wanting to step up into the larger multifamily properties and move away from <4 unit buildings.