I would recommend looking up local real estate meet ups in your area and attending as many as you can - this will be a great way to network with lots of players in the industry including real estate agents, investors, wholesalers, lenders, etc

Even some of the multi-state players adapt to the needs of the local markets.Nathan shared some good advice.

Each player starts out with $1500You play a few rounds and each team owns some properties etc but there are still on properties on the board which we will say get auctioned.

Who are the players I need to know in IL, MI, WI, and IN?

Have you reached out to the Renovo type players already? 

We have things like WARt in baseball that can predict what a player will do based on what they have done in the past. 

Proper and Cbiz are other big players, but were more expensive in my experience.

Setup a keyword alert for turnkey here on Bigger Pockets and you'll start to see who the bigger players in the space are.

Wendy-Paul mckee is a big player in the market.

Find the big players in Colorado Springs on BP.Add the keywords "Colorado Springs" and/or "Colorado" to the BP keyword alerts.