meeting up in MO

[REIaddicted]

Hey Ed ( OzarkVU) I look forward to meeting up with ya this summer.

Who knows, perhaps it will be at a time that Dan is traveling through and Charlie can swoop in for a visit as well. Add Big John to the mix

It's PARTY time boys :beerchug:



Lisa

[Aldo]

Would this be a general meeting of bulleteers? If so, I maybe interested.

[OzarkVU]

Yes, indeed, Lisa. I'm looking forward to getting "home" this summer and meeting up with you and also Big John, if he is available. I hope to spend at least a week in the area...maybe more. I haven't posted much on this forum, so folks reading this may not know that my wife and I have a retirement home in Springfield, MO, where REIAddicted and John Michael are both located. I'm assigned to Germany, and just get to Springfield once a year to check on our property....and keep the IRS happy!

Dan, this site is amazing, and I'm learning so much from you and the gurus that you have brought in. I can't wait to move back to the States and get started in investing.

Ed :SM117:

Looking forward to getting you back in one piece Ed! Be safe! C,U, SOON!

[REIaddicted]

Aldo,
This REI party will be for anyone from the MB that wants to meet up :punk:
So pack your bags and get ready for a road trip.... :phone:

Hey Dan, are you joining this party? I know it will be while you are traveling back to the states, so maybe the family will be in a hurry to get " home"

Hey Ed, you bet John will be joining us :SM001:

[Dan Auito]

There's a window for us here Lisa, we get on the ferry out of Kodiak on June 1st with two horses in tow, we will be driving from Seward Alaska all the way to Florida, the Alcan highway takes about 8-10 days to drive and then we hit the U.S. I would say we will be coming through anywhere from the 10-15th of June.

I am willing to hold up the wagon train in the big MO if you folks have a place for me to tie up the horseys. Do keep us posted on this one!!!

[REIaddicted]

There's a window for us here Lisa, we get on the ferry out of Kodiak on June 1st with two horses in tow, we will be driving from Seward Alaska all the way to Florida, the Alcan highway takes about 8-10 days to drive and then we hit the U.S. I would say we will be coming through anywhere from the 10-15th of June.

I am willing to hold up the wagon train in the big MO if you folks have a place for me to tie up the horseys. Do keep us posted on this one!!!


I don't have a " hitchen post in the front yard" and I don't care what ya heard about us hicks! :SM013:

Non the less the horsey's will have a free 10 acres to run and romp with custom feeding barrels and barn.. the whole nine yards!!!!

We can narrow it down when you have an idea about the dates you will hit town and I will plan, email, arrange for hotel discounts ( sorry guys, my kids refuse to give up their beds even to their pals!... greedy things!) and cook up a storm and everything else that needs to be done to ensure we all have a great time and can visit and share with each other.

I am getting excited about this now..... Say the word and I am on it.... Chime in people!

Lisa

[Dan Auito]

WORD! I have approval from the head honcho to hold up the stage in MO for a couple days so it looks like we're on. Don't worry about the bunkhouse, I know John lives in a mansion so we'll raid his place :smiley3: Either way that's not a problem. I look forward to the stay!

[dbuttron]

So, the question is, will this become an opportunity to meet and chat with you all? I'm just up the road in KC and would love the chance to get to know some of you all better as I'm getting my business cranked up. If the timing worked with my schedule I wouldn't hesitate to slide down to my old stomping grounds...

Derrek
(an SMSU alum)

[REIaddicted]

So, the question is, will this become an opportunity to meet and chat with you all? I'm just up the road in KC and would love the chance to get to know some of you all better as I'm getting my business cranked up. If the timing worked with my schedule I wouldn't hesitate to slide down to my old stomping grounds...

Derrek
(an SMSU alum)

You DO know that SMSU has had a change of name and all the SMSU logo is HOT ! SMSU is now MSU .. they promptley raised credits to $175 a credit... who would have guessed? LOL

As Dan Knows closer to the dates he will be in town, I will start e-mailing everyone that has replied to this thread and letting them know the details.

It is going to be a chance for all of us to meet, network, share and laugh. I will then cook up a storm, email and arrange for everyone to meet up. I can get hotel discounts for those that will be here...... As soon as we get closer to the date I will start finalizing the details and post them.

Sound good?

lisa

[Aldo]

If i ain't there, it will be due to my untimely demise or because I croaked ahead of schedule. I've put together numerous meetings of fellow posters at a another LL site, starting about 4 years ago. The concept caught on like wild-fire and resulted in regional meetings across the country. You will never believe the cameradie that comes from such meetings. An example is a meeting that resulted in a great friendship with a couple several states away. They couldn't make a meeting so, shortly thereafter, I drove 450 miles (each way) just to spend a day with them.

TO DAN (mostly): Based on my experience and that of many others, I'd suggest that a meeting of Bulleteers gets promoted to the hilt. Without meaning to sound like a braggart, starting meetings of site-posters on the 'other side of town' has created many, many friendships and a real sense of cameraderie at that site.

Having experience in this, I will gladly assist in putting this together in any way that I can - on one condition. The meeting must be 100% informal. I'm talking about a Saturday(?) lunch at a public restaurant, followed by an afternoon of unregulated networking. No scheduled speakers and no scheduled schedule. Just lunch and networking.

[REIaddicted]

If i ain't there, it will be due to my untimely demise or because I croaked ahead of schedule. I've put together numerous meetings of fellow posters at a another LL site, starting about 4 years ago. The concept caught on like wild-fire and resulted in regional meetings across the country. You will never believe the cameradie that comes from such meetings. An example is a meeting that resulted in a great friendship with a couple several states away. They couldn't make a meeting so, shortly thereafter, I drove 450 miles (each way) just to spend a day with them.

TO DAN (mostly): Based on my experience and that of many others, I'd suggest that a meeting of Bulleteers gets promoted to the hilt. Without meaning to sound like a braggart, starting meetings of site-posters on the 'other side of town' has created many, many friendships and a real sense of cameraderie at that site.

Having experience in this, I will gladly assist in putting this together in any way that I can - on one condition. The meeting must be 100% informal. I'm talking about a Saturday(?) lunch at a public restaurant, followed by an afternoon of unregulated networking. No scheduled speakers and no scheduled schedule. Just lunch and networking.


I call on YOUR HELP and RAISE you that it should be at a park BBQ with NO speakers, just fun and visitisng

What is the next poker phrase after that ? i dunno :SM005:

[OzarkVU]

It looks as if our times won't coincide. I'm stuck here in Germany until about the 22nd of June. Then we have to attend my wife's niece's wedding in St. Louis. I'm not available to come to SW Missouri until around the end of the month, at the earliest. But go ahead without me. It sounds like fun.

Dan, will you be retired by then? I'm sure you'd just LOVE to make the run up I-44 to Ft. Leonard Wood to try out your new retired ID card at the PX.

Make sure to take in some Branson shows while you're in the area. If you like "the theater", you can also check out the summer tent theater run by the SMSU drama students. Actually, it's very well done, but hotter than Hades in the summer time.

Ed :SM039:

[Dan Auito]

I'll be on the R.OA.D. Ed, Retired On Active Duty! The way it works is I have 30 days paid travel time, and 66.5 days of leave on the books so I'll be getting full pay and benefits up until Sept 1st but won't see another Coast Guard base again after may 25th! In a work capacity.

Fort Lost in the woods is not new to me. Been there done that for 13 weeks in the summer, yep hot as he!! there! First joined the military, Army reserves and went through the full meal deal at the rock!

Then a year and a half later joined up full time U.S.C.G. and did another 13 weeks at Cape May, that's now getting rapped up too! Can't wait to get back to full tilt investing, already setting up the playing field down in FLA! Sorry your going to miss Lisa's cooking! Dan :SM001: :smiley10:

[OzarkVU]

R.O.A.D. Good one! We have a similar expression on the civilian side. We call it "RIP", which stands for "Retired in Place". I've worked with a few of those guys over the years.

Ya know, Dan, I got to thinking that I've never asked you what you do in the CG, other than ride in the back of a Herkie. What's your rating?

Ed :SM119:

[Dan Auito]

Loadmaster examiner, so it doesn't fall out of the sky, Dropmaster examiner so we can throw stuff out the back (Rafts, pumps, radio's, etc...), Engine mech so I can get us flying again when we break down in no mans land, Hazmat certifier so we don't die in flight from explosives or chemical combinations go up in smoke.

I have a few more designations but who wants to hear about all of those? It's been fun but I much more prefer my real estate training than uncle sams version of worthwhile things to do. I will be a RIP and enjoy every minute of my newest designation.

I was offered officer candidate school years ago and turned it down, I just couldn't sacrifice the ability to read and study real estate while transiting 1000's of miles of sky.

Of the 5000 hours of flight time I have I would conservatively say 2500 of those have been spent reading and learning real estate! :SM023:

[OzarkVU]

Dan,
I wrote this lengthy response to your post about a funny experience that I once had while flying in the back of a C-130. I guess it just wasn't to be that it got posted. It went off into never-never land. It involved being in the "belly of the beast" along with the honey wagon. Not my idea of fun. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

I hope this summer get-together works out, but I'll probably be the one that can't make it when the rest of you are there. If I don't get my orders soon, I'll not even get to the States at all, but that's an entirely different story.

Hope to see everyone in SW Missouri and give all of you an "OzarkVU".

Ed :clap:

[Aldo]

Since Dan will be on well-paid leave time while on his way to making his next million in RE, I'm sure providing the steaks for the grill in the park won't be a problem. What a guy! Thanks Dan.

[Dan Auito]

I suppose I could bring you back an Alaskan wild goat meat steak Aldo :biggrin: Umm Umm good! If your not up to that then a nice porterhouse might do the trick ahy! If your coming all that way my friend, then that's the least I could do, and you know me, I always try to do the least I can! :11doh:

OzarkVU We have all felt your pain of the lost post! What we have learned to do is type up the post in this block and when finished just copy it and take it into word, copy it there and save it to your docs.

Then bring the corrected version back to the board, delete your typed original version and paste the word version in. If the system chokes due to the inactive time during your masterpieces composition then just go get the saved one from your docs file.

I just say "quick reply" when labelling the DOC so when I do it again it replaces the last one. This takes a little getting used to but you don't lose the work!

P.S. Believe me when I say I related to what you had said without getting it all up, those stories are being rewritten all the time!

[REO]

Sounds like a great "meeting of the minds." Count me in!

[Aldo]

Empty (I mean: inquiring) minds want to know.

[Dan Auito]

We are coming! As planned we leave here Kodiak Jun 1st and will hit the mainland of Alaska about 28 hours later then it's down the Alaskan Canadian highway! We'll be doing about 350 miles a day to take it easy on the horses so we'll be figuring it out as we go.

Our triptik from AAA is on it's way and that will give us a better idea of a more defined window for our arrival into MO!

Stay Tuned but we're thinking at this point we should be pulling into MO around the 15th if all goes well.

I will update this once we get the triptik and sit down with the Milepost map to get some solid data! Stay tuned!

[Aldo]

"...hit the mainland of Alaska..."
Thanx to Dan, I've learned that Kodiak is nothing more that a floating suburb of Alaska. For the past 200 years I thought Kodiak was 'in' Alaska rather than a diminutive annex. Being south of the real Alaska, he probably doesn't even live in an igloo.

I'd give my left...........arm, to be in MO on June 15th but, sadly, that probably won't work for me due to an appointment to have my dogs' teeth cleaned. Okay! I lied. The truth is that I do have a week-long event that I'm in charge of for the week of the 12th to the 18th. If your arrival date changes or if I can find a way to wriggle out of my commitment, I'll be the first one there (or wherever).

Dan, I'd add that a stop in WI shouldn't add more than, maybe, a lousy thousand miles to your journey.

Please keep us up to date. We're talking less than a month here.

[Dan Auito]

Well if Aldo's not coming then I'm not coming either! Just kidding!!!! I'll keep everyone posted and hopefully you'll make it after all my friend, I guess the best thing that could happen is that I'll be off the hook for one less porterhouse. Heh Heh Heh.

[OzarkVU]

I will have to miss this. I won't even leave Germany until the 21st and won't get to Springfield until later than that. I'd love to meet up with Dan, but it just isn't going to happen this time. For my Springfield colleagues, I'll probably be there in July some time. For Dan, we may get a chance to link up yet. I went to a retirement party last night for an old friend who is retiring to Florida. Since he has invited us to visit, maybe we'll also get a chance to travel around Florida and see all of the deals that you missed while you were in Alaska.

The bad news is that I won't be in Springfield for the big occasion. :SM100:

Ed

[REO]

Count me in!

[neodemes]

I'll be there...in spirit. :SM076:

[ProCustomHomes]

Well if you guys don't mind a new comer crashing the party -- I'd be very interested in meeting all of you. I may have to travel five miles to the meeting but if sacrafices have to me made -- I'm willing. :thumbsup: Keep me posted.

Storm

[micheal1949]

Our home is sold, but we will not be moving until the end of the month. If you are coming through Saint Louis you and the family are welcome to bunk here. There is just the 2 of us in 6800 s.f. of house.

[OzarkVU]

Micheal,
We're from St. Louis (sort of). My wife grew up in Florissant. We've been overseas for the past 30+ years and visited there almost every summer until her folks moved to St. Peters. We'll be there in about 3 weeks to visit family. Where are you from?

Go Cardinals!

Ed

[micheal1949]

I am from the great state of Florida and most definitely bleed orange and blue. We will be heading south again around the end of the month. perhaps we can get together before we head out.

micheal

[warehouse]

Hi, I am a newcomer, would love to meet some of you for good tips on getting started up better. I am in South Springfield, mo.

Warehouse

[Aldo]

Warehouse, we're just now planning a mid-west get-together for Sept. 16th, making your timing perfect. We'll be selecting the specific location based on the mid-point for those who will attend which currently appears to be mid- to southern-Illinois.

I'm rather geographically challenged so I don't know how far you are from that general area. I'm near Milwaukee and a 4-5 hour drive is my outside limit.

Yesterday I posted a thread entitled "Whatcha doing on Sept. 16th?" in the General RE forum. Debbie (KaosProperties) expressed interest, but hers was the only reply so far. Can we add you to the list of attendees?

[warehouse]

I do'nt know if I can make or not, but would love to.

[Debbie]

Ware,

Special favor to ask of you.....update your profile? Pretty please? Chocolate Fudge (Baskin Robbins) ice cream on top?

[Aldo]

Would that come with a graprefruit slice on the side?

[Debbie]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!! *nose twinkling*

[Aldo]

Prejudging an unknown is a serious personality defect. lol