Chatrooms for Real estate investors

Does anyone know of any chatrooms for real estate investors?
Is there a chatroom that hosts discussions with a good number of people on a regular basis??

I checked out weekendmillionaire dot com as someone suggested but they only hold their chats once a month. Any other recommendations? -Brandon

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

Joshua Dorkin

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Icon_minipost Feb 08 '09, 10:04 PM

We've got a chat tool on the site, but no one to organize the chats right now. If you're interested in setting one up, I'm sure we'd have plenty of people interested.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

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Jim Harmon

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Icon_minipost Feb 08 '09, 10:44 PM

I think this ought to be a primary part of the site. There are plenty of good investors and good sellers out there who need an easy way to get together. For instance, I am winding up some inventory and in today's electronic world it's hard to get the word out that there are great deals on new homes, not just foreclosures and junk.

Josh, maybe you could get something on the homepage.

Jim

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

Brandon E

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Icon_minipost Feb 09 '09, 06:13 AM

Joshua- I have a feeling you're right about how much interest a chatroom would generate. But in terms of setting it up I think I'm better off leaving it to the techies...
Jim- Your comment(s) are testimony to what Josh and myself are saying. We could all really benefit from interacting in real-time.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

Joshua Dorkin

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Icon_minipost Feb 09 '09, 06:15 AM

We've got an OLD - low-budget chat available on the site at: chat, but if there's more interest, perhaps we need to look at taking it to the next level . . .

Anyone else?

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

Patrick E.

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Icon_minipost Feb 09 '09, 10:15 AM

I think the chat room that is up right now is good, maybe just no one going on?

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM

Jason Wheeler

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Icon_minipost Feb 09 '09, 11:34 AM

I've looked high and low and I have to hand it to Joshua Dorkin and his team! This IS the best place online for Investors to chat, Q&A, learn and create relationships.

The main key is for online contact to become personal relationships.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:12AM by Jason Wheeler

Brandon E

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Icon_minipost Feb 10 '09, 05:16 AM

Then it looks like if a small icon could be displayed next to everyones user name that indicates that they are online or in the chatroom perhaps others might become more aware and begin to use the chat feature......??

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:13AM

Jim Harmon

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Icon_minipost Feb 11 '09, 08:51 AM

ok, maybe I'm a tech moron (not usually) but I can't find the chat button.

JIm

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Joshua Dorkin

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Icon_minipost Feb 11 '09, 10:56 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, Brandon . . . we will definitely be looking deeper into the technology to better our chat capability.

Until then, we still have the chatroom I mentioned earlier.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Jeffrey K.

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 01:32 AM

I second the need for the ability to see if people are online. This feature would be great.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Josh Gesler

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 02:31 AM

It would probably help to have a link to the chatroom in a prominent place in the navigation. Maybe better than list status for each user, you could simply show how many people are currently in the chatroom. I might also suggest that you use a chat application based on IRC. For those of us who are chat junkies, IRC is a nice option. I'd be willing to assist in a chatroom upgrade project if you like.

Josh Gesler

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Will Barnard

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 02:40 AM

I'm all for it.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

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Mike Casella

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 02:55 AM

i was just in the (current) chat room and I don't think there is anything wrong with it at all.
I think we should schedule some times for people to be in there and see how it goes. If you are finding that people are complaining about the functionality of it, then look into upgrading it. In my opinion, it's just fine the way it is.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Will Barnard

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 03:07 AM

I second that! Mike and I were just chatting in there and it worked great.
My recommendation is to have some type of icon or logo next to each users name when active in the chat room as Brandon suggested and also do some marketing/announcements to everyone on BP to let them know it is available and active.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 03:31 AM

I noticed that there were some scheduled chats listed there, are those active and taking place, or something still in the works?

It looks pretty good! It just needs a few more of the bells and whistles to evolve it into a another amazing BP tool that we are blessed with from Josh and his crew!

BP has set the bar pretty high, and we are so spoiled! :D

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Joshua Dorkin

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 08:14 AM

For a while we were doing the scheduled chats until I became . . . shall we say . . . overwhelmed?

Until a new generation of BP chat comes together, we can certainly do the scheduled chats . . . we just need a few people to take the lead on them.

Any interested parties?

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:14AM

Will Barnard

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 11:30 AM

What does "Take the lead on them" involve?

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:15AM

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Rich Weese

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 04:28 PM

I'm no techie, but love to chat. I'd try to be there at scheduled times or when others are in chat room.

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:15AM

Will Barnard

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Icon_minipost Feb 12 '09, 10:14 PM

Me too Rich.

What does "Take the lead on them" involve Josh?

Edited: 06/26/2010 at 07:15AM

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