One developer though has successful purchased and reinvented some huge mill structures in a viable way and continues to make news with purchases and plans for these buildings.

Difficult to find REPUTABLE investors, agents, mortgage people, etc.

Now that you have established a great reputation with other professionals in your market area, let's move on to other difficulties.

The best way to get involved is to start out with a developer.

From what I've been told, you can only get massive results from taking massive action and to be successful, one must develop the correct habits of practicing the right actions consistently over a long period of time.

In McElroy/RDPD speak, develop your 'S' implementation using the 'B' methods.

Our area is booming to say the least, we have Exxon building their global headquarters 6.5 miles away, a new hospital just broke ground (Texas Children's, a specialty hospital) 3 miles away as well as other various developments going on within 15 miles of our current home.

My opinion is that you are developing an ongoing relationship with people you are mailing to (cold list) and they will contact you when they're ready to (perhaps) take action if you've made the vendor "short list."

Develop a burning desire and you will succeed.

I have lots of friends in the business who are more than happy to refer me to people with good reputations, and I know how to get multiple bids on jobs.The property is a mile from my house, so it would be easy to go over there multiple times a day when I need to.