To borrow from a favorite Baseball movie of mine, "If you build it, they will come".My advice is to show up on a regular basis to every meetup you can find in your area.

I cleaned and painted and learned to be darn good at both. 

When I get the text I click the link in it and it gives me a popup box reading AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED (bold, not caps), with regular font "bgrpkts.me" underneath, with two fields for username and password below that.

Cash flow from REI is on the way up for me, feeling very fortunate I don't have a regular 'day job.' 

Yet another is to be direct, 'come clean' about your problem ('I need to buy X before this date, can you help me please?').

If you think professionals are expensive, try paying for the clean-up of an amateur. (3) Being a RE Investor is "A Business"! 

You need to have your tax returns analysed by a competent broker or banker to see what income can be used even when it's not regular wages or sales.As soon as you get out of the homepath, FHA, conventional options, the portfolio options kick in.

In my class I met someone who does general contracting (we're meeting), a couple that does cleaning (commercial and residential), a painter, a couple who owns a custom cabinetry company, and a stager/designer (good to know, but my sister is great at interior design and I'll probably collaborate with her for staging/decorating at least in the beginning).

She tells me keep them out of the basement, have the parents guarantee she has someone clean the common areas twice a month.

Regardless of weather or not we eventually do rent it out, I am now finally ready to get back into the REI game and pursue it regularly, and build a robust portfolio of income producing properties.