A good start will be leaders/organizers of each county within SoCal, ie LA County meetups, OC meetup group, San Diego meetup group, etc.

It might be, as Al Williamson mentions in this article, getting involved in your community and just helping to improve the neighborhood (and in the process, networking with other community leaders and investors - see comments).

Tony Nuda and Greg Zessin are great leaders of the Springfield Area Landlords Association. 

When your a Landlord your a leader, and you must LEAD.

4 votes for BP and 18 to current leader.

However, true leaders and business operators are one's who can weather the good times and the bad times.

Because I’m literally having that conversation with my leaders right now and am looking to move to a more rural area.

We definitely encourage our investors and all other investors to do their own due diligence and as part of that due diligence meet in person with the boots on the ground leaders as well as other members.

This starts at the top with the leader.6.

I don't know how common this was, but at the beginning of the meeting the leader named off some occupations and asked people to raise their hands if thats what they do.