I have 30+ units and on a regular month usually only spend about 5 hours total on management things, most of which involves collecting rents and bookkeeping.

You will start to see if you want to do what they do.

Wind is one of the subtle items that Insurance companies are starting to exclude. 

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

You're off to a bad start if you must create a poor perception of other options to make your concept look good.  

Some free happy hours, but the regular meetings are about $20.Saturday morning in East Ft.

That is dissapointing that they did not vet the people they would be spending hours and hours touring properties.

I started a new post asking people's thoughts about insurance costs in your local area and specifically costs to rebuild and other challenges:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/95/topics/1227051-insur...

Ex - Cin is 4 hours away from Cle.

Raising money is all about marketing and sales (not real estate specific) so either hire marketing agency and read sales books, or hop on some LinkedIn courses on marketing and sales.Not sure the legal structure to use: talk to accountants and attorneys.Need deal flow: talk to brokers and go to a lot of networking events.Lending terms: start calling banks and loan brokers.From there, it is all risk mitigation.