Is creative real estate investing just GURU pixie dust or what?

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Hello all,

I'm going to be spending a tidy sum on inbound internet marketing starting late next week.  My goal is to simply monetize as much of what comes through the pipeline as possible. So, I cannot be a one trick wholesaling pony.

To that end, my wife and I have  been getting our ducks in a row.

• RE license. Check.
• Buyers list. Check.
• Target market. Check.

That said, I have been finding it exceedingly difficult to:

1. Find a mentor and give them money for help with my "creative deals."  Basically, I'd like to say "Hey John, I have a deal. If it's worth your time to help me get this done, you can have half of the money, I'll gain knowledge. We both win."   
2. Find a real estate lawyer in FL who works with investors. 

Finding a mentor and giving them money is hard.  Finding a lawyer is hard.  What gives?  Everyone pounds the table saying "find a mentor and hire a lawyer" but why is it this difficult? 

I would really appreciate feedback. Let me just quickly highlight that the strategy I've been using to find mentors is the strategy I've been using to find buyers; meet ups.  

I've built a nice sized "buyers" list through meet ups but am skeptical these folks are even "buyers" as my success rate finding a creative real estate investing mentor who stands to benefit from the nearly $10k monthly I'll spend on marketing is proving to be an exercise in futility.  

As a YouTuber myself, I see its flooded with GURUS promoting $500 - $5000 products on how to invest in real estate "creatively."  It makes absolutely no sense for me to spend $5,000 on some course where the producer will pound the table telling me to hire a lawyer after I have paid him $5,000 - whereas, I could just pay a lawyer $5,000 to draw up a bunch of contracts. 

Thanks for listening and I welcome your thoughts!