Initial impressions of Connected Investors is the speaker is a blowhard stating the obvious with a few stats thrown in to legitimize his knowledge, but as some have commented here, the red flags are "we are the world's largest Real Estate Investor website."

Afterwards, the speaker would give a keynote of sorts, and the band would come back out.

Training, speaker lists, etc.

As Jarrod mentioned me and a few friends run a meetup each month with the format having a guest speaker come along to talk on a subject of interest and then network for the remainder of the session.

Additionally, prioritize attending local Real Estate Investors Association (REIA) meetings, particularly those featuring guest speakers who specialize in the field of Short-Term Rentals (STRs).

This contractor was featured speaker on apartment assoc webinar.

I received 2 degrees from the University of Memphis and was the commencement speaker for my graduation.

Nate Barger and I are among the speakers there. 

We keep the meeting ALL CONTENT and ZERO boot camp promotion.The upcoming meeting is on January 28th and our featured speaker is Bill Horan of Realty Exchange Corporation.

Here's a list in order of when I bumped into them (note that the main speaker, Bob Diamond, once was a BP member too).Jeremy RicciDave Van HornDaniel Fisher (special note for Daniel, he is Amish out of Lancaster County, and came there via a 2 hour train ride!)