You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.

There is also Jax REIA - Adam’s dad, Joe Locklear started the group.

We put together multifamily deals locally, and also run a monthly meetup group.

In terms of deal flow I would reach out to a couple of wholesalers, agents and join some local investor groups either on Facebook or online local community to start.

I am in a large syndication group too where GPs are not even allowed.

You may need to offer more to sellers and sell to a smaller group of investors (who may buy with cash and/or are willing to work on tighter margins).To help understand your market better, put your name on your competitor wholesalers’ lists and see what they are “offering” and compare those to what you would expect using your current model.At this point I am having trouble getting the property contracted.

You can tell how invested he is in others by how much time he spends making free content and answering questions in his group. 

Look into meetups through BiggerPockets, local REIA (Real Estate Investors Association) groups, or even events in nearby Seattle.

It's the second Wed of every month, a small group of people and variety of investor experience levels.

Once you have a market chosen I'd connect with a realtor/wholesalers in that market through BP or Facebook groups to get a first hand view from them on how their market is performing.