Everything I’ve read or listened to says going to meet ups is the best way to connect and build relationships.

This is why you can have two similar buildings with different tax bills. 

Hi all,I'm a new investor in Charlotte and am building out a lead generating system.

I would continue to look at other houses in your price point and try and build up your cash reserves.

Hello everyone I'm a new investor I am educating myself, I will build a great network and take progressive action to be very successful in real estate investing.

I would not do a fix and flip in Florida as a new investor with the costs (and reliability) of contractors and the insurance costs right now.

Same staets, like mine, have an Energy Code where you are required to get a certain amount points of point for new builds.

I understood back then that for me to build and scale the business, I needed to always make decisions based on numbers and not emotions, and that's one big reason I've kept myself in the industry now for 4 years.I see a lot of people getting too emotional after their first proof of concept, and most of them are not in the business anymore.

(A bit of self-interest here....I am in the Eugene (Springfield) market and always looking for references for reliable, quality maintenance people!)

Most investors walk a building, identify windows and other benchmarks and rely on these elements in coming to their own conclusion on unit layouts and unit count.