However I am not as savvy as many of the people on here.

It's mostly retired people or people who have no money.

We net 10s of thousands of people from the Midwest states as well. 

They sell you a package to enter and then find you people to stay and never paid you back!

With the cost of utilities and the level of comfort people feel is mandatory now there is no way I would want to be on the hook for it. 

Yes, you need a team, however you can't just assemble people together and call it a team. 

There's a reason why people refer to the founders of PayPal as the PayPal Mafia. 

Sub to us a bigger deal than most people realize.

Call around and talk to a few people I'm pretty sure you will find someone who will make the time for you who can tell you pretty much on the phone if you could qualify and ballpark for how much. 

Meetup and eventbrite seem to be the other platforms that people post them in.