We have also recently began inviting speakers to come and talk about their specialties so if you are able to attend it would allow you to meet a good group of people.

The lease should also have terms about quiet hours, and acceptable levels of noise (the easiest way to deal with the noise issue is to not allow musical instruments, and to require everyone to use headphones instead of speakers).You can manage utilities in a variety of ways--the easiest is for the owner to have all the utilities in their name, and then charge the tenants a flat fee for the utilities.

He usually has a speaker about a specific topic and I really like this group.I've also been to a couple educational events hosted by CAREIA, but each event is $15 if you're not a member. 

A trick with that is (again depending on state law) record a conversation or have someone in the room and phone on speaker with him promising a date to return your deposit due to him not starting on time.

So you need 10 motivational speakers. 

We don't have speakers or sales pitches but we do introductions then basically mingle and network for a couple hours. 

Getting it up and running with good meeting space and good quality speakers.  

They have a monthly "Guru Speaker."

Meetup/REIA likely to be started by @Kevin Leahy and myself come January where we plan on bringing in some rockstar speakers. 

I recently attended a seminar where the speaker was talking about the various real estate businesses he owns so that he can move expenses around, thus reducing taxable income dramatically.