I started looking into real estate investing about a year ago, and these types of groups were instrumental to getting the knowledge I have acquired since then. http://www.meetup.com/Apartment-Investor-Mastery-AIM-Plano-TX/Here is a group that is meeting tomorrow, and they have another meeting Thursday that focuses on multi-family:http://www.meetup.com/Real-Estate-Investing-Social-Network/

Buy a subway, pay franchise fees and taxes and a mortgage and employees and social security and welfare tax and have to pass health code inspections and pay for supplies you may or may not be able to sell and pay insurance and the list could go on forever. 

Or if anyone on here is using any other social media to promote their business and get exposure and by that mean generate leads?

When pensions and social security was considered dependable then owning a personal residence was a way to store up equity.

I am a marketer, and internet/social media has always been my thing which I intend to use to the best of my ability.

I am in Mission Viejo and can meet at a Starbucks.

I work for a multi-billion dollar company, and my only social organization is MENSA.  

I decided to give the KnoxREIA monthly meeting a shot, so a good friend and I signed up and I wanted to share my thoughts.I'm not typically a "social person", so I didn't think I would get much networking value from the meeting.

I am in Mission Viejo and can meet at a Starbucks.

Not commenting one way or the other on your deal.. just the broker daisy chains.Logic though would dictate that individuals or institutions with this buying power do not get their deals on the internet and especially on BP  which is a real estate social media site..