I soon will be a expert blogger for The BiggerPockets Blog starting in the next few weeks.

A lot of people (and bloggers) out there are hellbent on fixating on Day 1 cash flow (come hell or high water), but I've come to the realization that if you really want to sustain early Financial Independence for perpetuity, you will probably make it to the Promise Land a whole lot quicker (and easier) by concentrating the majority of your investment portfolio on the Creme de la Creme assets.Honestly, if I could do it all over again, I never would have bothered wasting my time investing in overpriced turnkey properties and dividend growth stocks, and would have tried to focus a lot more of my investment capital on my own local real estate market (Bay Area)..."

Maria Killam (designer and color expert and blogger with a HUGE blog following) has a saying that I think is so true: "Boring now equals timeless later."  

I've started with innovative financial independence bloggers/podcasters like the MadFientist and Radical Personal Finance (both of which I highly recommend!)

My wife and I were thinking hardwood but our investment partner was thinking the other materials were fine based on some CA bloggers.

Pinterest is another great resource to find this out, because bloggers write about an area and then post that link on Pinterest.

All my REI students use investor carrot www.oncarrot.comIf you're frustrated website designer, or blogger, you should still hire www.onCarrot.comI believe you should also hire out your seller marketing, and I recommend www.yellowletters.comLastly, if you got a job 9-to-5, you should hire an excellent live answering service that knows and knows how to screen sellers, -are they tire kickers or really motivated sellers?  

Hi All,I'm am very busy in my full time job (12hrs+ on the regular), so I would likely to focus on marketing channels that are mostly automated including:-Direct Mail (in progress)-a Website (I'm using blogger at the moment) -An undecided 3rd channel (RVM perhaps?

I hope we can get it done in the near future.FYI - If you're looking for some great real estate bloggers, checking out our contributors on the BiggerPockets Blog will lead you to some of the top guys out there.

http://stlouispatina.com/south-st-louis/The above my favorite blogger walking through the neighbor hoods and photographing the different kinds of brick buildings.