However, your network may be decidedly smaller when you consider the number of people you have met in person and catch up with on a regular friendly or business basis.Extending your network through networking, in the conventional sense, often involves referrals, third party introductions and simply walking into a room full of unfamiliar faces to initiate conversation with industry (or non-industry) contemporaries.

IMO one of the biggest risks all note investors face is collateral value. 

You may get your face in front of the public but once they click on your name if there's nothing there they're going to move on.

How did they sell millions of really, really stupid loans right in front of everyone's faces? 

Below is a recent scenario that we were faced with:Ana rented a free market studio apartment from our company in August 2015.

Let's face it, after you gain access to the MLS you figure out very quickly that an agent is just not going to be able to give a few listings and comps here and there to EVER help you understand the market to any reasonable degree of depth.  

Basically I wouldn't take what the seller says at face value.

We've actually moved away from using wood trim and toward MDF trim, and are doing the same with painted cabinet faces.

Faced with a 30 day time-line and her situation, she will have no options but to sell to me or get foreclosed on.I am even going out of my way to help her find a place to move that will meet her exact needs.Personally, I don't go out and judge others when I know nothing about the situation.

If you save 53.33/mo and your HVAC breaks in month two, you've got ~$100 in your maintenance fund and are facing a $3200 repair cost.