The smoke alarm uses so little power, it may come out to a dollar a year.

I would just make it more casual to start... pre-heat the idea a bit before sitting them down for a power point!

The Gas powered wall heater sounds super interesting.

I immediately assumed that the neighbor was using my vacant property's electricity to power his house during the evening, and had disconnected for the morning, but not cleaned up his evidence yet.

You can check out all the podcasts here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/category/p...Also, be sure to start learning as much as you can, knowledge is power!

You always want to make them your friend, because they are the ones with the power to make or break a project, so choose your battles wisely.

Knowledge really is power.

We have access to exclusive investment opportunities.We've been referred to top-performing power team members.We saved over $2000/yr in insurance premiums when we switched our 3 pre-Keyspire income properties to their broker's national program.I was able to negotiate a further 23k reduction off the purchase price of a property based directly on what I learned from a Keyspire mentor.It's a big investment and certainly an individual decision based on your circumstances and goals.

I know tht realtors who want to build long term relationships will need to pay attention to the power of the web and social networking.I think one of the drawbacks might be the need for increased security from hackers seeing that large databases will probably be centralized.I noticed google is willing to provide info, tool, training and hosting for those wanting to develope their own projects.http://code.google.com/The internet is evolving so rapidly, with opportunities presenting themselves daily, that I'm planning on going back to school and focusing on web programing.

If you find a market that has good cash flow potential, go there and visit, build a power team (broker, property manager, escrow, appraiser you can trust, etc), and get to know the area.