Welcome to the board Mike I am also new and from Arizona.

I hope to learn a ton through these boards.

If I tried contacting the local board of realtors do you think they would be helpful in find a local REI club?

You may havea hunch that your deal will be interesting to investors,but until you have a prospectus with pro-forma numbersyou do not know how many investors will be interested.He is now in the "fund raising" period, looking for investors.If you are financially able to invest, you would request theprospectus and then invest if you like what you see.You would be part owner of a retirement village in SoCalcomplete with golf course, etc.No I understand the process of building the plan and then looking for money I am planning this same type of deal with a popular down south business to bring up to my area, the point that I am asking about is when planning I should have an IDEA of who I will pitch my plans to, from this post it seems like this guy doesn't have anyone on board and is almost lost in looking for investors and if he works for a RE development group he should at least have a few "pocket" people or groups that will get him started with the funding.

I hate the ugly base boards and have looked at replacing them but they seem to run$200-$300 per cover!

The key is to proactively find your sellers.

the key to to these conversions it two fold.

Thanksfor sharing that article with us.I'm certain you'll add your own perspective to ourdiscussions on this board.

The key is start doing a handful of them and KEEP doing them.

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