A huge amount of information can be gleaned from this web site and other related government web sites.  

I have gleaned some from the various forums but the contacts are often PM'ed. 

It has been my experience with BP members that valuable and credible information is gleaned from the member forums.

Stand on the shoulders of those you glean from everyday!

What info can I glean from this number?

I got my RE license, found some mentors/peers to glean knowledge, bought my house FHA, then rented it and cash flow from it pays mortgage for it and for an apartment (I wanted to downsize).

I am attending REIAs locally and willing to help potential investors in any way possible to work with them and glean some of their experience.

And just as many of the investors here glean insights into practices from 'the big boys' (PE funds and REITs), so too do PMs from their 'big boy' equivalents.So to understand a little better the PM business side, you should look to the billing practices of the large PM companies across the country.

At that level we also had access to credit reports and could glean information from there as well.

You should be able to glean a lot about their group dynamics from this meeting, I.e. who is the leader who follows, who is picky or pragmatic.