Networking with other Michigan real estate investors without three essential things in place - business cards, voice mail, email address - is a mistake that most new to this make on a regular basis.
It is pretty common for people to come up to me after a seminar and ask for this or that. Almost 95% of them have no business cards / no email / no fax number set up. And yet they have been thinking about doing this for a while.
Look if you want anybody to take you seriously and help you then you have to meet him or her halfway. If you want somebody to fax you or email you a lead for preforeclosures - well make it easy for them as much as you can.
We are all busy - the successful ones are more busy then the ones who are not. The more you climb toward the top; your time becomes more valuable than anything else. To ask successful people to help you (HINT: they are the ONLY ones you should be asking to help anyway) is fine. But you should know the rules.
Good places to get it done: for business cards, faxes that come to your emails as PDF and virtual voice mail systems to capture incoming short sale leads.
