Another great turnout for another great meeting.  The rain let up for a nice evening to grill.  Todd Hesbacher handled the majority of the grilling, so if the burgers and dogs weren't any good....  Actually, I heard a lot of positive feedback.  Angie Smith kept the machine oiled throughout our grill session keeping the cheese and buns prepped.  Because I was out grilling, I missed Rob Caldwell's Numbers presentation, but I heard good things about it from Ed who runs that.

Kathy Gilmore gave a great presentation for anyone looking to get into flipping.  She also gave out a bunch of her new books on flipping.  She even had two of DIG's own All Star contributors to the book....and me...share some tips.  It's funny, while I was on stage I looked over at Don Rotanz and thought he should really be up here giving out tips with his extensive and successful history.  There is a tip he shared years ago (and I'm sure many times since then) that always gets repeated in my own head.  It was in the form of a question when someone once was complaining about not being able to get deals.  "How many offers did you make this week?"  If you're not constantly making offers, you won't be getting deals. Getting back to the two all star contributors to Kathy's book on stage-- shout out to Deb Nye and Deepta Hiremath.  I think Deepta had the quote of the night when referring to Deb and Kathy providing input on the aesthetics of her flips for her: "I don't care what it looks like, just so long as it makes money!"  Amen.  Lots of great tips were shared last night.

As always, networking was great.  I met some new people from both ends of the spectrum, a member from long ago as well as one who just moved to the area.  As usual, I cannot remember names, but the new gentleman just moved to Delaware, so I mentioned Sal Felicia and a couple other names for him to reach out to regarding investing down that way.  If anyone invests that direction and was at last night's meeting, he had on the black cowboy-ish hat and the black San Jose Sharks polo.  Also picked up a new contractor contact, Ryan McCallister.  I'm sure many of you got to meet him and his partner as he was reaching out to everyone making introductions.  

Looking forward to next month's meeting,