It will make your life easier since potential clients will be able to look you up on the NMLS website to verify you are a legit loan broker.

If you don't have any leads or don't know where to start here are a couple suggestions: ask brokers who people use for debt, find a mortgage broker as they have access to different buckets of capital, use a website like CoStar to look at closed transaction over the last 12 months and see who they used for debt.

I can learn a lot more about a firm talking with someone on the phone than I can by going through a website.

Is it possible to find something like that online (Costar, Crexi, broker websites, etc.)?

Anyway, we're excited to be here on this website.

Goes to emphasize, not to believe what you read online-go to the state website and see if changes are coming...I doubt it.

Are there any meetups or events being hosted in the area or websites to help investors network through scheduled events?

I believe I located the CC&R's on the Recorder's website. 

I tried to use them, but their website is garbage, I spent several hours trying to build a listing on their clunky platform then their system was unable to "verify" my account.  

I happened to be looking at Monday's houses briefly only because a friend asked me to comp one property's value for him (because I've got mls access as a broker and he just wanted a quickie comp) but I stopped there so I don't know about this one in Shorewood you mentioned.As far as the suburban counties, as you may have noticed, the more well off parts of MKE Cty aren't very well represented compared to the less well off areas, so when you look at the other counties (like the Waukesha Cty sheriff has a running listing of the next maybe 5 or 6 weeks of auctions on their website and each week there's usually 10 to 20 TOTAL each week and quite a few will be in the relatively few not so well off areas of the county and you'll be hard pressed to find many in Chenequa, the most expensive community in all of SE WI) Ozaukee has very few as well as Washington County and I'd guess its the same pattern there as well, but you'll have investors in all of these counties who are watching them.